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CLASS OF 1869 

AMHERST COLLEGE 
"LIGHT" 



1889 



NEW YORK 

PRESS OF STYLES & CASH, 77 EIGHTH AVENUE 






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Katonah, N. Y., June 26, 1889. 
My Dear Classmates : A second edition 
of the History of the Class of 1869 of Amherst 
College, covering the entire period of twenty- 
years since our graduation, is now offered to 
your kind consideration. It was planned to 
have it ready for distribution at our reunion 
at Amherst, July 3d, but a delay of a few 
days has become necessary. The great 
majority of the class have responded to the 
appeal for information with a promptness 
most delightful, but a few have waited for a 
second or third prodding, and they must 
bear a large measure of responsibility for the 
delay, Our most efficient Secretary, W. 
Reynolds Brown, gave the undertaking a vig- 
orous start in the circular letter sent out last 
March. Since then the pressure of his busi- 
ness cares has been such that the task of edit- 
ing the material gathered has devolved upon 
the undersigned. There have been many 
pleasant features of this work, and if the 
result prove of any interest and value to you, 
and serve to strengthen the bond of class 



fellowship, I shall feel amply repaid for the 
time and trouble it has cost me. The im- 
portant matter of publishing the history has 
been under the supervision of Donald, who 
very kindly assumed that care. 

Errors and omissions cannot of course be 
avoided with the utmost precaution against 
them. Your indulgence in this matter is 
confidently asked, and an early correction 
will make future work of this kind easier and 
more complete. 

Five more of our number have won stars 
in our record since 1879 — E. A. Adams, 
Emmons, Fuller, Warn, and Chittenden. 
Adams and Warn died on the same day, 
January 7, 1882. 

With the exception of L. E. Wells, M.D., 
everyone, both of the graduate and non- 
graduate members, has been heard from. 

The pages devoted to statistics with their 
totals of eighty-seven boys and seventy-four 
girls are pleasant reading, but the frequent 
stars upon these pages witness that some of 
our number have passed through deep waters, 
and call forth our loving sympathy. 

Only five of our graduate members and 



two of the non-graduates remain in a frac- 
tional condition and refuse to be reduced to 
unity. Not all of these cases are hopeless, 
but some we fear are. 

Let all have photographs taken during 
January, 1894, and then expect a third, illus- 
trated edition of our history for our quarter 
centennial. 

Very truly yours, 

John H. Eastman, 



BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD OF 

GRADUATE MEMBERS OF 

THE CLASS. 

* Edward Austin Adams, son of Austin 
and Almira (Stearns) Adams, was born May 
5, 1848, at Lawrence, Mass. He prepared 
for college at Oakham, Mass., where his 
parents resided at the time he entered col- 
lege. During the first three years after 
graduation he was engaged in teaching at 
Cummington, Mass., Spring Run, Penn., and 
Cornwall, N. Y. In October, 1872, he com- 
menced the study of medicine with D. W. 
Miner, M.D., of Ware, Mass. His medical 
studies were subsequently pursued at the 
Medical Department of the New York Uni- 
versity, and at the Buffalo Medical College. 
From the latter institution he received the 
degree of M. D. in February, 1876, and soon 
after became Assistant Physician at the State 
Asylum for the Insane, Kalamazoo, Mich., 
where he still remains. The institution at 
present contains 560 patients, of whom 
Adams has immediate charge of about 120, 
visiting them twice daily. The nature of his 



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professional work is leading him in his 
studies to give especial attention to biological 
science. 

This report of our classmate appeared in 
our Decennial Record, and we were permitted 
to greet him at our Reunion in 1879. But 
when we came together again in 1884, a ten- 
der and impressive feature of our meeting 
was the recital of his sad death, given us by 
his chum, R. M. Woods. The latter has 
kindly furnished the following sketch in 
memory of one beloved by us all : — 

At the time of his death, Dr. Adams was 
Assistant Medical Superintendent of the 
Michigan Asylum for the Insane in Kala- 
mazoo. While on his daily round of inspec- 
tion he was assaulted and stabbed by one of 
the patients. This assault took place Friday 
morning, Jan. 6, 1882. Death followed at 
six o'clock the following morning. This 
patient had previously threatened Adams' 
life, and on this account had been carefully 
searched, but nothing was found in his pos- 
session of a dangerous character. His enmity 
was due to a suspicion that the Doctor failed 
to forward letters he had written. The wound 
seems at no time to have given much pain. 
Adams only became aware of it by the appear- 
ance of blood, and was slow to believe himself 



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seriously hurt. But when examination made 
evident the nature of the injury, he recog- 
nized at once what the end would be. Mani- 
festing no agitation, his feeling found expres- 
sion only in a few words of sympathy for his 
friends at home. 

Since graduation Dr. Adams had changed 
as little as any member of '69. He was " the 
Doctor " still. In figure, he remained slender. 
In his movements, he was quick and nervous. 
There were still frequent indications of that 
shyness and reserve which characterized him 
in College. He was as honest and guileless 
the last day of his life, as he v/as in boyhood. 

It was predicted when Adams was at Am- 
herst that his shyness and what some call 
" ignorance of the world " would prove grave, 
if not insurmountable, obstacles in the way 
of his success in life. But, if they were ob- 
stacles, they were nobly mastered. At his 
death Adams had gained the position and 
reputation of a rising man in his profession. 
Always in connection with his regular work, 
he pursued some independent line of investi- 
gation. The position which he held, he had 
gained by repeated promotions in the service 
of the State. His skill and usefulness as a 
physician received many marked recognitions. 

The doctor won friends wherever he was 



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known. He was a favorite with the officers 
and attendants at the institution, and the 
patients generally were fond of him. Those 
who remember his aversion to composi- 
tion will be interested to learn that Adams' 
letters to the friends of patients in the asylum 
were particularly admired. They were always 
so honest and clear in the information they 
gave, always so kind in spirit. 

It is hardly necessary to dwell at length on 
Adams' success in college, nor on the affection 
in which he was held by his classmates. 
Quick to appreciate fun, even at his own 
expense, frank and decided in the expression 
of his opinion, eager and enthusiastic as a 
student, he entered heartily into every phase 
of college life. Some who came to him ten 
minutes before the recitation, and asked him 
to translate the Greek for the day, can testify 
to his unselfishness. Those who argued 
with him, competed with him for honors, or 
played with him at practical jokes, all knew 
how free he was from anything that savored 
of envy, or anger, or malice. 

He left, at his death, a father and mother, 
two sisters, and a brother, all living in Oakham. 
He was the oldest of the children — the com- 
mon object of affection and admiration. His 
annual visit was the event of the year. His 



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invalid brother lived in anticipation of the 
doctor's return. His funeral was attended at 
Oakham, where the services were conducted 
by his college chum. 

Singularly guileless in spirit, pure in life, 
chaste in word, to the end he kept himself 
"unspotted from the world." One of the 
youngest of the class, his sad end seemed 
not like the fall of a man, but the striking 
down of a noble boy. 

Our cause of sorrow must not be measured 
by his worth, for then '* it had no end." 

The following resolutions will be of interest, 
as showing the high esteem in which he was 
held by his professional associates. 

At a meeting of the Trustees of the 
Michigan Asylum for the Insane, Kalamazoo, 
held Jan. 26, 1882, the following preamble 
and resolutions were unanimously adopted: 

Whereas, Our late friend, Dr. Edward A. 
Adams, the Assistant Medical Superintendent 
of this Institution, has been suddenly stricken 
down, while at his post of duty, in the prime 
of manhood, and in the midst of his useful- 
ness, and, 

Whereas, The purity of his private life, his 
unfailing gentleness and sincerity, his refine- 
ment and courtesy, as well as the zeal, fidelity 
and intelligence with which he discharged his 



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official duties, render it fitting that we place 
upon record our high appreciation of his per- 
sonal character, and his services to suffering 
humanity ; therefore 

Resolved^ That the untimely death of Dr. 
Adams is a calamity to the Institution, and 
an irreparable personal loss to all who knew 
him. 

Resolved, That we desire to express to his 
afflicted friends our sense of their loss and 
our profound sympathy in their bereavement. 

Resolved, That these resolutions be spread 
upon the minutes of the meeting and a copy 
of the same be forwarded to the parents of 
the deceased. 

Charles Herbert Allen was born in 
Lowell, Mass., April 15, 1848, and prepared 
for college in the High School of his native 
city. After graduation he engaged in busi- 
ness, and since January 1, 1875, has been a 
member of the firm of Otis Allen & Son, 
extensive manufacturers of lumber at Lowell. 
Taking an active part in public affairs, iden- 
tified with the interests of his city and emin- 
ently successful in business, he has from time 
to time been called to a prominent share in 
the direction of the educational and other 
public institutions of Lowell. But a wider 



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sphere of public service soon summoned him, 
and at our class reunion in 1884 we were 
happy to welcome the Hon. C. H. Allen, 
who, after two terms (1880-82) in the Mas- 
sachusetts House of Representatives, had 
just completed a term in the State Senate, 
He was also Col. Allen, and we felt proud of 
our representative upon Gov. Robinson's 
Staff at that Commencement. We felt that 
these were but the first upward steps of a 
rising man, and were not surprised to learn a 
few months later that our classmate had been 
chosen to represent the Eighth District of 
Massachusetts in the Forty-ninth Congress, 
Two years later he was re-elected and served 
with distinction in the Fiftieth Congress, his 
second term ending March 4, 1889. Last 
autumn, but for his peremptorily declining 
the honor, he would have received a unani- 
mous renomination for a third term. 

Allen's career in the service of his State and 
of the Nation has been a most honorable 
one, and the Class of '69 heartily joins in the 
abundant commendation it has received. He 
was recognized as one of the working mem- 
bers of Congress, faithful to the interests of 
his constituents, and taking an intelligent 
and eloquent part in the discussion of the 
important questions affecting the welfare of 



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the whole country. It is emphatic but well- 
merited praise to say that he achieved dis- 
tinction among the Congressmen of a State 
whose Representatives have always stood in 
the first rank of our National Legislators. 
A member of our class, meeting not long ago 
a representative of one of Lowell's greatest 
industries, asked him if he knew Congress- 
man Allen of his district. *' Know him," he 
replied, " everybody knows him. He stepped 
into the shoes of one of the ablest men we 
have had for years, and while people were 
wondering how he would manage to get 
along, he stepped out in advance of his 
predecessor and has continuously acquitted 
himself with distinction and honor. Know 
Charlie Allen ! I rather think I do." 

In the Forty-ninth Congress Allen was a 
member of the Committee on Indian Affairs, 
and his maiden speech was delivered March 
11, 1886, upon a bill affecting some of the 
Indian tribes. Another noteworthy speech 
was made January 20, 1887, upon the Inter- 
State Commerce Bill, and during the same 
session he was one of the speakers at the 
service in memory of the Hon. Austin F. 
Pike, Senator from New Hampshire, who 
had been an old friend of his father. We 
find him taking an active part in the great 



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Tariff discussion of 1888, making several 
speeches, which evince a thorough study of 
the questions involved, and present them 
with a wealth of pointed illustration, and 
frequent play of humor and sarcasm which 
have given them a charm for your historian 
not possessed by the ordinary treatise on 
Political Economy. January 19, 1888, a 
special service was held in connection with 
the presentation to the House of portraits of 
former Speakers, who had been Representa- 
tives from Massachusetts. Our classmate 
was the orator chosen to present the portrait 
of the Hon. Joseph Bradley Varnum, and his 
speech on that occasion richly merited the 
praise given it by the leading papers of the 
country. 

It may be well to state that these facts 
have been obtained from a careful observa- 
tion of Allen's Congressional career, the gen- 
tleman himself in his report for the class 
history disposing of these four years in as 
many lines. Though retiring for the present 
to private life, we confidently expect letters 
from our sons in the not distant future 
describing Commencement at old Amherst 
honored by the presence of Gov. Allen and 
Staff. 

Allen was married November 10, 1870, at 



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Manchester, N. H., to Miss Harriet Coleman 
Dean. They have two children, Bertha, born 
April 2, 1872, and Louise, born February 25, 
1875. His residence is 411 Middlesex Street, 
Lowell, Mass. 

William Osborn Ballantine was born 
at Ahmednagar, India, February 9, 1849. 
His preparation for college was made at 
home under the instruction of his father, the 
Rev. Henry Ballantine, for many years an 
honored missionary of the A. B. C. F. M. in 
India. The three years following graduation 
were spent in New York City, studying medi- 
cine, and he received the degree of M. D 
February 21, 1872, from the New York 
University. During the year 1872 he filled 
the position of house surgeon in the Colored 
Home in New York City. In 1873 he 
removed to Columbus, Ohio, where he prac- 
ticed his profession for about a year. Called 
home to Amherst by his mother's death, he 
soon after received an appointment from the 
American Board to engage in missionary 
work in India. January 6, 1875, he was 
married to Miss Alice Cary Parsons, at East- 
hampton, Mass., and they embarked for India 
January 23, 1875. About a month was spent 
in England and on the Continent, while on 



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their way to India, where they arrived April 
18. During his residence in India he has 
combined the work of a physician and a mis- 
sionary, dividing his time between Ahmed- 
nagar, a city of 36,000 inhabitants, and 
Rahuri, twenty-two miles distant. In his 
latter capacity he has had the superintendency 
of a station and several out-stations, with a 
number of native preachers and teachers 
under his charge. In connection with his 
medical work he had charge of a dispensary 
at Ahmednagar, and has met with gratifying 
success. In 1879 he was employed by the 
British Government on special duty to report 
concerning the famine. Mrs. Ballantine died 
September 9, 1878. In June, 1883, he re- 
turned to America for a vacation, and 
remained until October, 1885. He was thus 
able to be present at the reunion of the class 
at Amherst in 1884. During his stay in 
America he took a partial course in theology 
at Andover Seminary, and was ordained to 
the work of the ministry, July 8, 1885, by a 
council held in Pilgrim Church, Dorchester, 
Mass. 

He was married August 20, 1885, at Fitch- 
burg, Mass., to Miss Josephine Louise Perkins, 
and returned to India with his wife soon 
after their marriage. Since his return he has 



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been stationed chiefly at Rahuri, where he 
has carried on dispensary and educational 
work, and has had charge of nearly the same 
out-stations as formerly. 

A young missionary is in training now in 
their home, Joseph William Ballantine, born 
July 30, 1888. A letter has recently been 
received bearing date, Rahuri, Western India, 
April 3, 1889, in which Ballantine writes : 

" I wish very much I could be present at 
the next class reunion. I am hoping to send 
my wife and child for a six-months' vacation 
to America, but I must stay by the work 
here for the present, especially as I feel so 
well and hearty as I do. You must tell the 
boys that I will remember them when they 
meet together again, and shall try to picture 
to myself much of what will be said and 
done on that occasion. If all or any one in 
the class feel disposed to make a donation 
toward my dispensary work, or toward the 
building of some new school house in the 
district, 1 certainly shall be glad to give them 
the privilege of doing so. The people are 
beginning more and more to appreciate our 
work and to clamor for schools and education. 

" The same is the case with regard to the 
practice of medicine. Each year sees the 
people appreciate medical work done for 



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them, and large numbers flock to us for 
treatment," 



William Marsh Benedict was born in 
the city of Brooklyn, N. Y., November 17, 
1847. His preparation for college was made 
at the Polytechnic Institute of that city. 
After graduation he began the study of law 
in the office of S. T. Freeman, New York 
City, where he remained until the following 
spring. He then entered the office of William 
L. Gill, of Brooklyn, but after a few months 
was obliged to discontinue study on account 
of ill health. 

In September, 1870, he was able to resume 
his law studies with the firm of Lewis & Mac- 
Kay, Brooklyn, where he remained until 
admitted to the bar September 15, 1871. He 
began the practice of law in Brooklyn, but in 
February, 1873, was prostrated with a severe 
nervous illness, confining him to his room 
until the following May, when he took a trip 
to Europe, remaining abroad until the Septem- 
ber following. On his return he resumed his 
law practice in Brooklyn. In May, 1875, he 
went abroad again, with an invalid sister. 
Returning in September he resumed his 
practice at 367 Fulton Street, Brooklyn, and in 
New York City. His present office is at 219 
Montague Street, Brooklyn. 



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He was married October 10, 1878, to Miss 
Grace Dillingham, of Brooklyn, and a gradu- 
ate of Vassar College, Class of 74. They 
reside at 225 Cumberland Street, Brooklyn, 
and have two children, Melissa M., born 
August 17, 1879 ; and Susan D,, born May 
5, 1881. 

Edward Augustine Benner was born at 
East Pittston, Me., March 31, 1848, and fitted 
for college at the High School, Lowell, Mass. 
After graduation he devoted two years to 
teaching in a preparatory school for boys, at 
Cornwall, N. Y. In the autumn of 1871 he 
began his studies at Andover Theological 
Seminary, graduating in 1874. The following 
September he accepted the professorship of 
Mathematics in Drury College, Springfield, 
Mo. Here he remained for three years until 
1877, when ill-health from chronic bronchitis 
obliged him to resign his professorship, and 
to spend a year in rest at his old home in 
Lowell, Mass. In 1878 he accepted a pro- 
fessorship in Colorado College, and was 
detailed to have charge of an academy at 
Salt Lake City. This position he still occupies, 
having the supervision of the New West 
Education Commissions* work in Utah. 
Benner simply writes : *' I am still pushing 



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Salt Lake Academy, which has obtained some 
credit in this region." The fact is, that it is 
impossible to exaggerate the importance of the 
work he has been doing in its bearing upon 
a satisfactory solution of the perplexing 
Mormon problem. The institution over 
which he presides has made most encouraging 
progress under his energetic and wise admin- 
istration, and occupies a leading position in 
the educational work which is doing so much 
to undermine Mormonism. We are glad to 
know that his health was restored ten years 
ago when he first came to Zion. 

Benner was married August 31, 1874, at 
Lowell, Mass., to Miss Mary S. Carter. They 
have five children, Caroline Frances, born 
May 26, 1875 ; Burnham Carter, born May 
6, 1877; Edward Hopkins, born July 12, 1878; 
Mary Katharine, born February 20, 1884, and 
Allen, born March 17, 1885. 

Joseph Hegeman Bogart was born at 
Roslyn, L. I., November 11, 1846, and pre- 
pared for college at Flushing Institute, 
Flushing, L. I. 

The autumn of 1869 found him beginning 
his medical studies at the Dartmouth College 
Medical School. His second and third 
courses of lectures were taken at Bellevue 



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Hospital Medical College, New York City, 
where he received the degree of M.D., March 
1, 1872. He began practice at once in 
Roslyn, L. I., his native place, where he still 
resides, attending so closely to his profession 
that he has taken a vacation only once in the 
last ten years. In 1882 he was appointed 
Visiting Physician to the Queens County 
Lunatic Asylum, a position which he still 
holds. His standing among his professional 
brethren is seen in their making him the 
President of the Queens County Medical 
Society. In 1887 he was elected a member 
of the Holland Society of New York City. 

For fourteen years he has been a member 
of the Board of Education of Roslyn, and his 
interest in the welfare of the rising generation 
is now greatly increased by having two pro- 
spective pupils in his own home. He was 
married February 21, 1884, to Miss Ethelena 
T. Albertson, of Mineola, L. I. Their two 
children are Jennie, born January 23, 1885, 
and Ethelena, born June 8, 1888. For the 
information of classmates who have not seen 
Dr. Bogart, it may be mentioned that he is 
much more of a man than in 1869, the per- 
pendicular measurement the same, but in 
breadth much increased. 



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Clarence Fuller Boyden was born at 
Attleboro, Mass., March 5, 1846, and pre- 
pared for College at the Stoughtonham Insti- 
tute, Sharon, Mass., his home at the time of 
entering Amherst. 

A professorship in mathematics at the West 
was offered him after graduation, but circum- 
stances requiring his presence near home, he 
accepted the position of master of the North 
Providence Grammar School, R. I. Here he 
remained during the school year of '69 and 
'70. During the following autumn and winter 
he was engaged in book-canvassing ; and, 
while thus employed, began the study of law 
in the office of Judge Allen, of Salem, N. Y., 
continuing his studies there until the spring 
of 1872. Called home by the death of his 
father, he soon after became sub-master in 
the high school in Taunton, Mass., a position 
previously filled by Seabury and also by 
Chickering. Since that time he has been 
connected with the public schools of Taun- 
ton as master of the Weir Grammar School, 
assistant principal of the High School, and 
now as master of the Cohannet Street Gram- 
mar School. 

He was married July 4, 1876, to Isabelle 
H., daughter of James H. Anthony, of Taun- 
ton. His present address is 27 Summer St., 
Taunton, Mass. 



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William Reynolds Brown was born in 
New York February 15, 1846, and prepared 
for college in his native city. After gradua- 
tion two years were spent at Cambridge, 
Mass., in the study of law. After receiving 
the degree of LL.B. from Harvard University 
in 1871, he began at once the practice of his 
profession in Morrisania, N. Y., in association 
with Judge S. D. Gifford. Two years later 
he removed his law office to White Plains, the 
county seat of Westchester Co. In 1874 the 
law firm became Brown & Westcott, and in 
1877 Hall, Brown & Westcott, with offices 
both in White Plains and New York City. 

This was his status ten years ago. His 
residence continues in White Plains, but for 
several years his business has been wholly in 
New York. In 1882 his partner, Mr. Hall, 
left the firm to go on the bench of the City 
Court of New York. He continued the 
practice of law under the firm name of Brown 
& Westcott until 1884, and then for one year 
alone. But in 1885 sedentary office life not 
agreeing with his health, he decided to give 
up the practice of law and devote himself to 
a more active out-of-door life in developing 
the business of a real estate corporation, at 
the head of which he had been for several 
years. As President of the Port Morris Land 



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and Improvement Company and in a general 
real estate business he still finds congenial and 
wholesome employment. He has spent num- 
erous vacations in pleasure and recruiting 
health in Europe, and during the past year 
has divided his time almost equally between 
home and abroad, owing to the temporary 
residence of his family in Switzerland for 
educational purposes. He expects to go 
abroad again June 29, and the coming 
autumn to bring his family home, and again 
settle down with White Plains for a summer 
home at least. 

Aside from holding the position of Presi- 
dent of the Village of White Plains, from 
which he resigned after a year's service to go 
abroad, he has kept out of poUtics in past 
years. For nine years he served in the Board 
of Education of the town. He was married 
May 7, 1872, to Miss Nellie W. Babcock, of 
Brooklyn, N.Y. Of their children, the " class- 
cup " boy, Warren Day, born February 5, 
1873, will be ready to enter Amherst in 1890. 
Cleveland Hall, born June 11, 1874, died 
December 8, 1886. Those of us who were 
permitted to know this dear boy in his own 
home will not soon forget him. Their 
youngest son is Donald Winchester, born 
September 9, 1877, a namesake of our class- 



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mate, Dr. Donald. Office address, 146 
Broadway, N. V. City. 

Joseph Knowlton Chickering was born 
in Portland, Maine, July 20, 1846, and pre- 
pared for college in the High School of his 
native city. The first year after graduation 
was spent at his home in Wakefield, Mass., 
in private study. In September, 1870, he be- 
came Principal of the Whittenton Grammar 
School, Taunton, Mass. The next year he 
was promoted to be Sub-Master of the High 
School, but in 1872 resigned this position to 
become Assistant Classical Instructor in the 
Springfield (Mass.) High School. In 1873 he 
was called to Amherst College as Instructor 
in English. On September 9 of that year 
he was married to Miss Mary E. Conner, at 
Exeter, N. H. On the 19th of February, 
1875, a son, Edward Conner, was born, but 
the happy event was followed by the sad 
death of Mrs. Chickering, March 12, 1875. 

After four years of successful work in his 
instructorship, he was made Associate Pro- 
fessor of English. While occupying this 
position he edited the Triennial Catalogue of 
the college in 1878, and for several years 
prepared the Obituary Record. Resigning 
his professorship in 1885, after a few months 



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of rest at his father's home in Wakefield, 
Mass., he accepted a position upon the Edito- 
rial Staff of the new Century Dictionary, the 
first numbers of which have just come from 
the press of the Century Company, New York 
City. This remarkable work will have added 
value for us, because of Chickering's labors 
upon it, which continued from November, 
1885, to December, 1886. 

The first four months of 1887 were spent 
in English studies at Johns Hopkins Univer- 
sity, Baltimore, Md., and the following year 
was spent largely with his father, the Rev. Dr. 
J. W. Chickering, in the neighborhood of 
Boston, Mass., and in the city of Washington, 
D. C. 

October 10, 1888, he entered upon his 
duties as Professor (pro tempore) of Rhetoric 
and English Literature in the University of 
Vermont, Burlington, Vt., where he writes 
that he is at present ''happily and busily 
employed." 

James Hobart Childs was born at Gil- 
mantown, N. H., May 25, 1847, and fitted 
for college at the High School, Amherst, 
Mass., where he resided prior to and during 
his college course. 

The first three years after graduation he 



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was engaged in teaching at Necedah, Wis. 
During the second year of his residence there 
he married "one of his best scholars," Miss 
M. Jennie Bailey, on the 5th of January, 1871. 
Here also his first child was born, a son, 
Rufus, September 19, 1871, but dying in 
infancy. 

In August, 1872, he entered Andover The- 
ological Seminary, and prosecuted his theo- 
logical studies there during the regular course 
of three years. The first Sabbath after grad- 
uation he took charge of the Congregational 
Church of South Byfield, Mass., and was 
ordained and installed pastor of that church 
October 7, 1875. While here two sons 
were born, Irving Hobart, born April 21 ^ 
1876, and J. Richmond, born July 5, 1880. 

After a pastorate there of over five years, 
he removed to Wenham, Mass., on the Eastern 
Railroad, near one of the finest beaches on 
the coast, where he began his labors, January 
], 1881. While residing here, Mrs. Childs 
died, June 27, 1882, of gastric fever. 

His pastorate at Wenham terminated May, 
1884, and he accepted a call to Northbridge, 
on the Providence & Worcester Railroad, 
twelve miles from Worcester. Here he still 
resides, ministering to two churches, the 
original church of the town, and a younger 



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organization, an offshoot from the former. 
The morning service is held at one church 
and the evening at the other. Northbridge 
is a manufacturing town, with large French 
and Irish elements in the population. Childs 
writes : " My work here has been much more 
interesting and encouraging than in either of 
the earlier pastorates, and we are very greatly 
attached to our people." 

The *' we " includes Mrs. Childs, for he was 
married at Newburyport, Mass., July 2, 1885, 
to Miss Susie P. Blake, who spent four years 
as a missionary of the American Board among 
the Armenians in Asia Minor. There are 
several hundred Armenians in the vicinity of 
their home, and Mrs. Childs is often called 
upon to act as an interpreter, and last winter 
conducted an evening school with her hus- 
band's assistance for the benefit of Armenians 
in a neighboring place who wished to learn 
the English language. 

A daughter, Alice, was born May 20, 1888. 
As a member of the School Board of North- 
bridge, and as Scribe of the Worcester South 
Association of Congregational Ministers, our 
classmate is serving his day and generation as 
well as in faithful discharge of the duties of 
his pastorate, happy in his work and in his 
home. 



^O CLASS OF i6 



Herbert J. Cook was born at Hadley, 
Mass., May 18, 1845. His preparatory studies 
were pursued at Hopkins Academy, at Hadley, 
and at Phillips Academy, Exeter, N. H. 

During the first year after graduation he 
taught in Hopkins Academy, in his native 
place. In the fall of 1870 he removed to 
Oxford, Chenango County, N. Y., where he 
remained as principal of the Oxford Academy 
for two years. During this time he became 
a candidate for holy orders in the Protestant 
Episcopal Church, and began a course of 
study in divinity, under the direction of 
Bishop Huntington, of the Diocese of Cen- 
tral New York. In September, 1872, he went 
to College Hill, Ohio, a suburb of Cincinnati, 
as teacher of classics, etc., in the " Ohio 
Female College." Here he remained one 
year, and then removed to Pewee Valley, Ky. 
to fill a similar position in the '' Kentucky 
College" for young ladies. This institution 
is located near Louisville, and is patronized 
largely by that city. 

He was admitted to deacon's orders, June 
27, 1873, by Bishop Huntington, at St. Luke's 
Church, Cayuga, N. Y., on the occasion of 
the consecration of that church. During the 
following year he served as deacon at St. 
James' Church, Pewee Valley, in connection 



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with his school duties. He was admitted to 
priest's orders, June 18, 1874, by Bishop 
Huntington, at Calvary Church, Utica, N. Y. 
After two years more of combined college 
and church work, he accepted a call to the 
rectorship of St. Mark's Church, Coldwater, 
Mich,, and entered upon his duties there, 
June 6, 1875. Here he remained for a little 
more than ten years. During his ministry 
the church prospered greatly. In 1876 a 
fine brick chapel was built. Six years later 
a handsome church of pressed brick and cut 
stone, adjoining the chapel on the principal 
street of the city, was occupied. He also 
had charge of a Mission at Quincy, six miles 
rom Coldwater, where a beautiful and com- 
modious church was built as the result of his 
labors. In the diocese of Western Michigan 
he stood in the front rank of the clergy, 
and was frequently honored with important 
trusts, representing the diocese as one of 
the clerical delegates at the General Conven- 
tion, held at Philadelphia, October, 1883. 
In addition to his church work, he was iden- 
tified with the educational interests of the city 
and county, serving as member and Secre- 
tary of the Board of School Examiners, and 
as member and President of the City Board 
of Education. 



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September 29, 1885, he removed to Chicago, 
and took charge of St, Bartholomew's Mission 
at Englewood. This work prospered and the 
Mission became a self-sustaining parish. 
May 1, 1887, a call from the large and im- 
portant parish of Christ Church, Dayton, 
Ohio, having been accepted, he began 
work in that city, where he still resides. 
Here also his ministry has been crowned 
with encouraging success, to which a Parish 
Building just completed at a cost of 110,000 
testifies, as well as many other tokens of 
material and spiritual advancement. 

Cook was married August 23, 1870, at Gen- 
eva, N. Y., to Miss Matilda Chapelle Metcalfe. 
They have two children, both born at Cold- 
water, Mich.; Edith Matilda, November 27, 
1876, and Theodora Lyon, July 27, 1879. 

Elijah Winchester Donald was born in 
Andover, Mass., July 31, 1818, and fitted for 
college at the Punchard School of his native 
town. 

For two years after graduation he engaged 
in teaching, the first year in charge of the 
High School at Belchertown, Mass., the 
following year at Newport, R. I. In October 
1871 he entered the Divinity School of the 
Protestant Episcopal Church at Philadelphia, 



AMHERST COLLEGE 33 

but after a few months continued his studies 
at the Union Theological Seminary, N. Y. 
City, when he graduated May, 1874. During 
his residence at the Seminary he assisted as 
lay reader in the Church of the Ascension, 
Dr. John Cotton Smith, Rector. He was 
ordained as deacon May 1, 1874, and became 
assistant minister in the same church. He 
retained this position until the summer 
of 1875, when he accepted a call to the 
Rectorship of the Church of the Intercession, 
Washington Heights, N. Y. City. He was 
ordained priest, October 7, 1875. After 
seven years of successful labor in that parish, 
he was called in April, 1882, to become 
Rector of the Church of the Ascension. This 
call he accepted, and now for seven years he 
has been meeting all the demands of a large 
city parish with a success which has placed 
him in the very front rank of the clergy of 
his diocese. The Church of the Ascension, 
located on Fifth Avenue, at the corner of 
Tenth Street, has been wonderfully developed 
under his ministry. Donald's voice has had 
no uncertain sound, whether in his regular 
ministrations to his own people, or in dis- 
cussing matters of theology and ecclesiastical 
polity in the Church Congress, or in arguing 
before legislative committees on questions of 



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public morality. Before the Church Con- 
gress, which met at Detroit, he read a paper 
on "The Proposed Parochial Mission," and 
another at Louisville, Ky., on "Apostolic 
Succession and the Historic Episcopate." 

Last May he delivered the annual address 
before the Alumni Association of Union 
Theological Seminary, taking as his subject 
" The Need of High Churchmanship to-day.' 
This address was most admirable, and 
received wide-spread notice and commenda- 
tion. 

For two years he was Chairman of the 
Citizens' High License Committee, and is still 
a member of it, and of the Joint Committee 
which drafted the High License bill which 
came before the Legislature of New York 
last winter. Undismayed by Governor Hill's 
vetoes the committee has just decided to 
draft another bill. Donald has several times 
served on the committees which have 
appeared before the Governor on this matter. 
In 1886 Amherst College conferred the degree 
of D.D. upon him, and the following year he 
was chosen as Trustee of the College. He is 
also a Trustee of the St. John Cathedral, plans 
for which have been submitted the past year, 
and Chairman of the Committee on Finance. 
He is a Trustee of the Home for Incurables, 



AMHERST COLLEGE 35 

Vice President of St. Johnland, and the Good 
Samaritan Dispensary, and Director in mani- 
fold other church and benevolent organiza- 
tions, too numerous to mention. In 1888 he 
went abroad, visiting Great Britain and the 
Continent. 

The shadows of sore bereavement have 
come upon his own home, and our classmate 
will have the sincere sympathy of us all. He 
was married April 25, 1876, to Miss Cornelia 
Clapp, of Washington Heights, N. Y. City. 
Of their five children the two eldest and the 
youngest have been taken from their home 
here. Alice, born April 2, 1877, died June 
17, 1882 ; Francis Winchester, born February 
17, 1879, died October 22, 1879 ; and Alan 
Stuart, born September 24, 1886, died Novem- 
ber 29, 1886. Two are living, Agnes, born 
September 6, 1880, and Graeme, born January 
27, 1882. Residence 7 West 10th Street, 
New York City. 

Charles Francis Eastman was born 
August 1, 1844, at Caldwell, New York. He 
fitted for college at Windsor Academy, Wind- 
sor, N. Y. The first two years after gradua- 
tion were spent in Wilmington, Del., as 
teacher of Greek and German in a private 
school presided over by Prof. W. A. Reynolds. 



36 CLASS OF iSbq 



In the fall of 1871, he accepted the position 
of principal of the High School in Beloit, 
Wis., remaining there for three years until 
forced, by the state of his health, to resign. 
At this same time he acted as superintendent 
of the public schools of Beloit. The next 
year was spent in Europe attending lectures 
at Leipsic, giving especial attention to Greek, 
and travelling in Germany, Italy, Switzer- 
land, France and England. Returning in 
1875, he was offered a position in Williston 
Seminary, Easthampton, Mass., as teacher of 
classics, which he accepted and filled during 
the next two years. In the spring of 1877, 
by the advice of his physician, he was forced 
to seek a change of employment, and to regain 
his health, became a farmer, removing to 
Easton, Md., where he now resides. 

He was married at Wilmington, Del., July 
12, 1876, to Miss Laura M. Buck ; his 
brother. Rev. J. H. Eastman, performing the 
ceremony. They have one child, Francis 
Buck, born August 27, 1878. 

This was the story told us ten years ago. 
Easton is still his home. His farm is five 
miles from the town, which is the most prom- 
inent place on the eastern shore of Maryland, 
and is finely located on Miles River, an arm 
of Chesapeake Bay. The lawn slopes down 



AMHERST COLLEGE 37 



to the water's edge. The country about is 
very attractive for all who are fond of water 
scenery and water sports. His own health has 
been restored in great measure. Farming has 
not been the most lucrative business during 
the last ten years, but while financial results 
have not been large, the yield of experience 
has been heavy, and the agricultural circles 
of Talbot County regard Eastman as their 
most trustworthy authority. Of late he has 
been turning his attention to fruit culture, 
and forty acres of peach, pear, apple and 
plum trees were most beautiful this spring in 
their blossoming promise. Terrapin, oysters 
and canvas-backs are among the attractions 
he holds out to visiting classmates. 

The one boy of our decennial record has had 
one sister and five brothers ; Mary Huse, born 
October 24, 1879 ; Charles Francis, born 
February 17, 1881 (died August 27, 1881); 
Charles Francis, born March 26, 1883 ; Lewis 
Bush, born January 31, 1885 ; John Huse, 
born February 16, 1887 (died August 8, 1887); 
and Arthur Bartlett, born August 30, 1888. 

John Huse Eastman was born August 
23, 1849, at Sandy Hill, N. Y., and fitted for 
college at Windsor Academy, Windsor, N. Y. 

The first three years after graduation he 



38 CLASS OF i8bq 



was connected with Knox College, Galesburg, 
III., for two years as teacher of Greek and 
Latin in the Preparatory Department, the 
third year as acting Professor of Latin in the 
College. 

September, 1872, he entered Union Theo- 
logical Semmary, N. Y. City, where he pursued 
the regular course of three years. After 
graduating in May, 1875, he accepted a call 
to become pastor of a Presbyterian church 
recently organized at Katonah, Westchester 
Co., forty-three miles from New York, on the 
Harlem R. R. He was ordained by the 
Presbytery of Westchester and installed pastor 
of this church July 8, 1875. Here he still 
resides. He was married June 11, 1879, to 
Miss Lucy King, of Binghamton, N. Y., just 
in time to bring his wife with him to the 
decennial reunion at Amherst. They have two 
children, Elizabeth, born August 7, 1880, and 
Joseph Bartlett, born June 26, 1882. 

He has enjoyed unbroken good health, and 
during the fourteen years of his pastorate had 
not been obliged to omit a service on account 
of illness until last winter, when an attack of 
mumps kept him in the house for a week. 

In lieu of notable incident in his own 
career your historian takes space to record 
this remarkable coincidence in our class. 



AMHERST COLLEGE 39 

Four classmates graduated at Amherst in 
1869, whose grandfathers graduated at Dart- 
mouth in 1794. The grandfathers were 
Joshua Darling, James Hobart and Moses 
Eastman. The grandsons were W. O. Ballan- 
tine, J. H. Childs and C. F. and J. H. 
Eastman. 

* Amzi Babbitt Emmons was born at Ches- 
ter, N. J., November 9, 1846, the son of Jere- 
miah Slaight and Esther Ann (Stout) Em- 
mons. Left an orphan at the age of five 
years, his early home was with relatives, who 
could only supply the bare necessities of life, 
and whose kind care he gratefully requited 
in subsequent years. He was bent on obtain- 
ing an education, but was obliged to depend 
entirely on his own resources, working and 
studying as best he could. He pursued his 
preparatory studies partly at Chester Institute 
and partly with a private teacher, Mr. William 
Rankin. He entered our class at the begin- 
ning of Sophomore year, and immediately 
upon graduation began his theological course 
at Union Seminary, New York City. The 
hardships he had undergone in teaching, 
shorthand reporting and other labors, and in 
self-denying economy, in order to obtain an 
education, had undermined his constitution, 



40 CLASS OF i86g 



and ill health delayed his graduation from 
the Theological Seminary until May, 1873. 
After preaching for a few months in Stratton, 
Vt., he was ordained to the work of the min- 
istry at Montclair, N. J., October 28, 1873. 
Returning to Stratton he was acting pastor 
of the Congregational Church there until 
November, 1874. For the next three years 
until October, 1877, he was acting pastor of 
the Congregational Church at Jamaica, Vt., 
serving during a portion of this time as 
Superintendent of the Town Schools, and for 
a single year (1876-77) as Scribe of the Ver- 
mont Convention of Congregational Churches. 
In the autumn of 1877 he removed to Oxford, 
Worcester Co., Mass., supplying the Congre- 
gational Church of that place until October 
16, 1878, when he was installed as its pastor. 
From the beginning of this pastorate he gave 
himself unsparingly to his work, and in his 
intense anxiety to fulfill his mission, exceeded 
his strength. Gradually he sank under the 
strain, the weary brain gave signs of yielding, 
he preached for the last time on the closing 
Sabbath of 1881, and then went for rest and 
medical treatment to his native county in 
New Jersey. But it was too late ; he con- 
tinued to droop, congestion of the lungs set 
in, and death brought him relief and rest, 
January 18, 1882. 



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41 



He was greatly beloved by his people, and 
after his death his church adopted the follow- 
ing resolution : 

Resolved^ That we recognize and emulate 
his wonderful exemplification of the spirit of 
his Master, his faithful and untiring labors, 
his cheerful spirit of self-sacrifice, his un- 
flinching devotion to principle and loyalty 
to duty. 

On February 2, 1882, a memorial service 
was held in the church at Oxford, conducted 
by ministers representing the Worcester Cen- 
tral Association of Congregational Churches. 
Several hymns, written by the deceased, were 
sung at this service, and the warmest tributes 
paid to his memory by those who had been 
associated with him in the ministry. 

Emmons was married May 28, 1873, at 
Chester, N. J., to Miss Melva S. Topping. 
Of their four children, three are living : Mary 
Forrester, born June 16, 1874 ; Esther Cra- 
mer, born Sept. 5, 1879 ; Moses Stone, born 
June 19, 1881. Floy Bradford, born Nov. 4, 
1877, died May 26, 1883. Mrs. Emmons 
resides still in Oxford. 



Henry Kellogg Field was born June 8, 
1848, in the town of Newfane, Windham Co., 
Vt., and prepared for college in the Wash- 



4-2 CLASS OF iS6g 



ington County Grammar School, at Mont- 
pelier, Vt. On leaving college he began the 
study of law with his father, Mr. Charles K. 
Field, at Brattleboro', and was admitted to 
the bar, September, 1871. Removing to 
Montpelier he formed a law partnership 
January 1, 1872, with C. J. Gleason. For 
nine years he continued the practice of law 
in Montpelier, but in September, 1881, 
accepted the position of General Agent for 
the Pacific Coast of the New England 
Mutual Life Insurance Company of Boston, 
Mass., with headquarters at San Francisco, 
and removed at once with his family to that 
city. There he continues, and writes, *' I 
am prospering, health is good, and fortune 
favors me " His residence is at 1850 Central 
Avenue, Alameda, Cal., but his office and 
business address are at 324 Montgomery 
Street, San Francisco. 

He was married November 25, 1872, to 
Miss Kate L. Daniels, of Hartford, Conn. 
They have five children, all boys, Charles 
Kellogg, born September 18, 1873 ; Martin, 
born February 3, 1875 ; Henry Willard, born 
May 18, 1877 ; Russell Bunce, born March 
24, 1880, and Allan Daniels, born October 
21, 1887. 



AMHERST COLLEGE 



43 



* RosELLE Andrew Fuller, the son of 
Almond and Lois (Thatcher) Fuller, was 
born at Philadelphia, N. Y., July 16, 1843. 
He was fitted for college at Genesee Wesleyan 
Seminary, Lima, N. Y., and entered our class 
at the beginning of Sophomore year. He 
studied theology for one year at the Bangor 
Theological Seminary, and after a year's 
interval, completed his course at Auburn, 
N. Y., graduating May 8, 1873. Ordained to 
the work of the ministry that same year, he 
was from the autumn of 1873 to the spring 
of 1874 stated supply of the Presbyterian 
Church at Shawano, Wis., and for three years 
from the autumn of 1874 stated supply of the 
Presbyterian Church at Colby, Wis., and 
preaching also at various points along the 
line of the Wisconsin Central R. R. Ill- 
health compelled his removal to El Paso, 
Colo., where the remainder of his life was 
spent, and where he died of consumption, 
March 20, 1880. 

He was married October 15, 1875, to 
Miss Flora Louisa, daughter of Walter B. 
Booth, of Westfield, Wis. Mrs. Fuller died 
January 17, 1881. They were both buried 
at Colorado Springs. Mr. Booth writes that 
their only child, Lois Eliza, born September 
14, 1876, has a home with her grandparents 



44 



CLASS OF li 



in Westfield, Wis., is in good health and well 
provided for. 

George Merrill Gage was born at 
Chicago, 111., February 17, 1849, and fitted 
for college at the Lake Forest Academy. 
After graduation he returned to his native 
city, and engaged in an active business life, 
entering first the employ of the Garden City 
Insurance Company. Early in 1870 he trans- 
ferred his services to the State Savings Insti- 
tution, where he remained for two years, 
occupying successively the positions of mes- 
senger, assistant teller, and bookkeeper. In 
the spring of 1872, he accepted the position 
of teller in the Fidelity Savings Bank and 
Safe Depository. The following year he 
was appointed assistant cashier, and occu- 
pied this position until the fall of 1877. 
Early in 1878 he became the financial editor 
of the Chicago Evening Post. Owing to the 
death of Mr. Willard, the editor, which 
occurred soon after, the affairs of the paper 
were thrown into confusion, the creditors 
took possession and placed Gage in charge 
as business manager. July 2, 1878, the paper 
was absorbed by the Chicago News. Mean- 
time Gage had been doing the work of half a 
dozen men, more or less, and as the result of 



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45 



the overwork and anxiety was prostrated by- 
two severe hemorrhages of the lungs. This 
necessitated rest, which continued until the 
spring of 1879, during which time he took a 
trip to Minnesota. Resuming work he 
became a member of the firm of Charles J. 
Haines & Co., engaged in a general real 
estate and loaning business. In 1880 he 
went into the employ of A. H. Beardsley & 
Co., as cashier, and remained with them 
until 1886, when he was appointed Manager 
for the Central Livery Company. The fol- 
lowing winter the state of his health obliged 
him to seek a milder climate and he went to 
San Diego, Cal. While there he carried on 
a real estate loan business as a member of 
the firm of John H. Ferry & Co. In the 
Spring of 1888 he removed to Salt Lake City. 
Last fall he brought his family there and is 
now living at 252 East 1st Street. He is 
employed in the U. S. Land Office. 

Gage was married July 17, 1881, to Sarah 
E. Valentine, daughter of J. Lewis Curtis, of 
Chicago. 

Richard Goodman, Jr., was born in New 
York City April 2, 1846, and prepared for col- 
lege at the Edwards Place School, Stockbridge, 
Mass. From Amherst he went to Harvard 



46 CLASS OF i6 



University to study law, receiving the degree 
of LL.B., June. 1871. The next six months 
were spent abroad, in England and on the 
continent. On his return he resumed his law 
studies in the office of Hillard, Hyde & 
Dickinson, Boston, Mass., and was admitted 
to the bar in 1872. After practicing two 
years in Boston he removed to New York, 
remaining for a year in the offices of Sanford, 
Robinson & Woodruff. Here ends the legal 
chapter in his history. In 1877, turning his 
back upon the strifes of courts and the dis- 
tractions of the metropolis, Goodman sought 
again the Berkshire Hills, and has since 
resided at his father's country seat in Lenox. 
Here he has devoted himself to the breeding 
of Jersey cattle, to butter-making, and has 
become an acknowledged authority upon 
these and kindred topics. He is a valued 
contributor to the leading agricultural papers 
of the country, and has gained an enviable 
reputation as a lecturer upon husbandry. But 
alas ! he still abides in the positive degree, a 
Goodman only, and not a better man from 
lack of adding the better-half. Dwelling in 
the most attractive village our country can 
boast, he has been a leader in all matters per- 
taining to its welfare, sewage, water supply, cir- 
culating library, social and literary societies. 
Residence and P. O. address, Lenox, Mass. 



AMHERST COLLEGE 47 

William Penn Hammond was born at 
Plympton, Mass., September 15, 1843, and 
fitted for college at Phillips Academy, An- 
dover, Mass. After leaving college he began 
at once the study of medicine, entering the 
medical department of Harvard University, 
where he remained for two years, and then 
went as student to the United States Marine 
Hospital at Chelsea. Subsequently he served 
as house of&cer at the Boston City Hospital 
for one year, after which he returned to 
Harvard, receiving the degree of M. D. from 
that institution in 1873. He began the prac- 
tice of his profession at once in the Bunker 
Hill District of Boston. A year later he 
accepted the appointment of assistant surgeon 
of the out-patient department of the hospital, 
which he filled for one year. Since that time 
he has continued his private practice, making 
but one change, from 401 Main St. to 47 
Monument Square, having possessed himself 
of a commodious house under the shadow of 
Bunker Hill Monument. In his own words : 
" No more history can be written upon my 
sheet ; no more children, no more honors. I 
have simply lived the life of an honest, hard- 
working physician, seeing and knowing little 
else of this world but pain, suffering and 
death." A careless reader might infer from 



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CLASS OF i6 



this that Hammond's patients never get well, 
but he has omitted to mention how much he 
has seen and known of relief from pain, con- 
valescence and full recovery of health, far 
more than falls to the lot of the ordinary 
physician. 

September 17, 1873, he was married to 
Miss Sarah Abbie Harrub. They have one 
child, Bessie P., born July 9, 1874. 

Myron Oscar Harrington was born 
January 6, 1844, at Kirby, Vt., and fitted for 
college at the Caledonia Academy, Peacham, 
Vt. After graduation he taught for two years 
in the High School at Medway, Mass. The 
summer of 1871 was spent at his home in 
Vermont on account of the illness of his 
father, and in the autumn he entered Andover 
Theological Seminary, where he remained 
until May 6, 1872, when he became principal 
of the Danvers, Mass., High School. This 
position he occupied until November 28, 
1873. During the first three months of 
1874 he was in Tougaloo University near 
Jackson, Miss., but returned to Vermont and 
remained until April, 1875, at St. Johnsbury, 
recruiting health and studying. He then 
took charge of the Lycoming County Classi- 
cal and Normal Institute at Muncy, Pa , but 
in the autumn resumed his studies at Andover, 
graduating in July, 1877. He was ordained 



AMHERST COLLEGE 



4'9 



at Danvers, Mass., October 5, 1877, by a 
Congregational Council, and went at once to 
Macon, Ga., where he labored as a missionary 
of the American Missionary Association until 
August 28, 1878. His next field of labor 
was Bonne Terre, Mo., from October, 1878, 
to July, 1879. He was installed as pastor of 
the Congregational Church at Kidder, Mo., 
July 19, 1879, where he remained for nearly 
four years. From May 29, 1883, until June, 
1884, he preached at Stewartsville, Mo., and 
from the latter date until September 6, 1886, 
at Mound City, Kansas. During a portion of 
his residence in Missouri he was President of 
the Missouri S. S. Association. Since Sep- 
tember, 1886, his address has been Topeka^ 
Kan., where his family resides at 932 Spruce 
St. He is now supplying the Congregational 
Church of Russell, a prairie town of 1,000 
population, about 200 miles west of Topeka. 
Harrington was married September 28, 
1877, to Miss Mary E. Smith, of Sunderland, 
Mass. They have three children ; Mary 
Elizabeth, born August 27, 1880 (died May 
19, 1883, of scarlet fever) ; WilHam Murray, 
born October 23, 1883, and Annie Nellie, 
born February 24, 1886. 

Waterman Thomas Hewett was born in 



50 CLASS OF iSbq 



Miami, Saline County, Missouri, January 10, 
1846. After the death of his father the 
family removed to South Paris, Me., and he 
prepared for college at the Maine State 
Seminary, now the Nichols Latin School, in 
Lewiston. He entered Amherst College in 
September, 1864, as a member of the class of 
1868. Called home in October, 1867, by the 
illness of his brother, he did not return to 
college until the autumn of 1868, when he 
entered our class, with which he graduated. 
He then went abroad with Prof. W. S. Tyler, 
in order to study Modern Greek in Athens, 
where he attended lectures in the University, 
and travelled over a considerable portion of 
Greece. In the spring of 1870 he went to 
Italy, and finally established himself in 
Heidelberg, Germany. At the breaking out 
of the Franco-German War he was travelling 
in Denmark. His plans being thus inter- 
rupted, he returned home after a brief resi- 
dence in Paris. On his return he was elected 
Assistant Professor of Modern Languages in 
Iowa State University, and at the same time 
offered the principalship of the Classical 
Department of the Whipple Academy, con- 
nected with Illinois College, but declined 
both positions. Soon after he accepted the 
position of Assistant Professor of German in 



AMHERST COLLEGE 



5r 



Cornell University, Ithaca, N. Y., where he 
has since resided. In 1879 he received the 
degree of Ph.D. from Cornell University. In 
1883 he was elected Professor of the German 
Language and Literature. He has received 
on two occasions leave of absence, and spent 
1877-78 in study at the University of Leipzig, 
and several months in Leiden, studying the 
literature of the Netherlands. In 1887-88 
he resided in Berlin and Paris for purposes 
of study. He is the author of " The Frisian 
Language and Literature ; an Historical 
Study," published in 1879 ; and has con- 
tributed to the Nation, American Journal of 
Philology, Modei^n Language Notes, Harpers' 
Monthly, The Atlantic, Science^ The Academy^ 
The Goethe Jahrbuch, and The London Acad- 
emy. *' The Life and Genius of Goethe " was 
published by him in 1886, made up of lectures 
delivered at the Concord School of Philoso- 
phy ; in 1887 '' The Poetry and Philosophy 
of Goethe," lectures delivered before the 
Milwaukee Literary School. He has also 
edited the " Transactions of the Modern 
Language iVssociation," and the '* Proceedings 
of the University Convocation of the State of 
New York for 1886." He has lectured also 
upon Early Christian and Mediaeval Art. 
For his contributions upon the Frisian Lan- 



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guage he was elected member extraordinary 
of the Frisian Society of History, Antiquities 
and Philology, and of the Society for the 
Frisian Language and Literature of Holland. 
He is a member of the American Philological 
Society, the Modern Language Association, 
and the Goethe Society of Weimar. 

He was married June 22, 1880, to Miss 
Emma McChain, of Ithaca, who died Sep- 
tember 18, 1883. He has no children. 
Address 31 East Avenue, Cornell University, 
Ithaca, N. Y. 

William Roscoe Hobbie was born at 
Unity, Me., December 22, 1848, and fitted 
for college at the Central High School, Cleve- 
land, O. For the three years succeeding 
graduation he was associated with A. J. 
Johnson, the New York publisher, as general 
agent. In March, 1872, he organized the 
Phoenix Paper Company, with H. L. Mowry 
and L. W. Haskins as partners. The office 
of the company is at Greenwich, Washing- 
ton Co., N. Y., and the mill, which was built 
the following summer, at Battenville. In the 
fall of 1878, Hobbie bought out the entire 
business, but after a time became associated 
again in business with his former partner, H. L. 
Mowry, and the firm remains as then consti- 



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tuted. Ten years ago the product of their 
mill was two and a half tons daily. How 
much that product has since increased we 
know not, but the paper of the company still 
stands at the head of the market. Hobbie 
writes : '' I have passed the years in a quiet, 
uneventful manner, steadily engaged in my 
business. I have not had time to engage in 
political matters, save to attend to my duties 
as an American citizen, which means a con- 
stant and comprehensive knowledge of the 
thoughts and feelings of my townsmen and 
regular discharge of individual duty. I have 
felt obliged to decline a larger sphere of 
action, although I have consented to act as 
Supervisor of my town, and under pressure 
of such campaigns as last fall have taken the 
stump at times." 

Hobbie also draws a most charming picture 
of himself and family gathered about the 
fireside of a winter's evening, while he dis- 
courses eloquently to them of the class of 
'69, and points to the men who have attained 
to eminence in church and state. 

He extends a hearty invitation to all to 

visit them in their home. These are his 

words : 

'* Come in the evening, or come in the morning, 
Come when you're looked for, or come without 
warning, 



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and you will always find a welcome awaiting 
you." 

A wife and three children will join in the 
welcome. Mrs. Hobbie was Miss Phoebe 
Walsh, of Greenwich, N. Y., to whom he was 
married June 2, 1880. The three children 
are Phoebe Elizabeth, born July 12, 1881 ; 
Edward Walsh, born March 15, 1884 ; and 
Marian, born August 23, 1888. 

William Jacob Holland was born August 
16, 1848, at Bethany, a Moravian mission 
station on the island of Jamaica. His pre- 
paration for college was begun as a private 
pupil of Mr. William Meinung, of Salem, 
N. C, an instructor of considerable note in 
that part of the South. In 1863, coming 
North with his parents, he entered, at an 
advanced standing, the Moravian College and 
Theological Seminary at Bethlehem, Penn. 
He remained here nearly four years, during 
the last year reading theology. After an 
interval of six months, during which he 
devoted himself to the study of the art of 
painting, he entered Amherst College, Janu- 
ary, 1868. For two years after graduation 
he was engaged in teaching, first as principal 
of the High School at Amherst, and afterward 
occupying a similar position at Westborough, 



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Mass. In the fall of 1871, he entered the 
Theological Seminary at Princeton, where he 
remained for the regular course of three 
years, graduating in 1874. While connected 
with the seminary he was actively engaged 
in preaching, both in vacation and term time, 
supplying the pulpits of the Second and 
Fourth Moravian Churches in Philadelphia, 
and subsequently the Presbyterian Church at 
Chestnut Hill, and the Central Congrega- 
tional Church in the same city. He was 
ordained as a deacon in the Moravian Church 
May 12, 1872, by Bishop William Bigler. 
Upon graduation from Princeton he severed 
his connection with the Moravian Church, 
and accepted a call to the pastorate of the 
Bellefield Presbyterian Church in the city of 
Pittsburg, Pa., where he was formally installed 
June 12, 1874. During his pastorate over 
550 persons have been added to the church, 
and its present membership is nearly 400. 
During the fifteen years in which Holland 
has ministered to this people they have con- 
tributed nearly $200,000 to benevolent objects- 
and are now engaged in building a new audi- 
ence room, which when completed will cost 
$55,000. He has visited Europe twice, in 1877 
as a delegate to the Pan Presbyterian Council, 
which met in Edinboro', and in 1879 as a dele- 



56 CLASS OF il 



gate to the meeting of the Evangelical Alliance 
at Basle. On both occasions he travelled 
extensively in Great Britain and on the Con- 
tinent. In 1887 he went with Prof. David P. 
Todd, of Amherst College, to Japan as the 
naturalist of the expedition sent out by the 
National Academy of Science and the U. S. 
Navy Department to observe the total eclipse 
of the sun, which took place August 19 of 
that year. He travelled over the greater part 
of the empire and made extensive collections 
representing the fauna and flora of the 
islands. The results of this expedition 
brought Holland so prominently before the 
Government as a naturalist that he has re- 
cently been asked to go to Africa for a similar 
purpose, with the promise of a large salary 
and efficient assistants, aii offer which he will 
probably accept. 

During his foreign tours Holland has acted 
as the special correspondent of a number of 
the leading papers of the country. He has 
also published a number of lectures and 
discourses, and many papers devoted to the 
natural sciences, illustrating the latter by 
plates, which he has for the most part him- 
self drawn and engraved. He is now engaged 
in writing a book upon Japan, and a history 
of the Presbyterian Church in Western Penn- 



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sylvania. He was for eight years clerk of 
the Presbytery of Pittsburgh, and in 1886 
one of the clerks of the General Assembly of 
the Presbyterian Church. He has for fifteen 
years been one of the Trustees of the 
Pennsylvania Female College, and for twelve 
years a Trustee of the Western Theological 
Seminary at Allegheny, and since 1888 
the Vice-President of the Board. He is a 
Director of the School of Design for 
Women in Pittsburgh and President of the 
Iron City Microscopical Society. He is a 
member of the Pennsylvania Historical 
Society, of the American Association for 
the advancement of Science, of the Academy 
of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, a Fellow 
of the Entomological Society of London, and 
one of the Life members of the Entomologi- 
cal Society of France, beside belonging to 
half a dozen other historical and literary 
associations of this country and Europe. 

Prof. C. V. Riley, of the U. S. Department 
of Agriculture in a recent publication says 
that " the collection of the butterflies of 
North America made by Dr. Holland is typi- 
cally the most perfect in existence." 

The degree of Ph.D. was conferred upon 
him by Washington and Jefferson College in 
1886, and that of D.D. by his Alma Mater 
in 1888. 



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He was married January 23, 1879, to Miss 
Carrie T. Moorhead, of Pittsburgh, Pa. 
Their first child, John Moorhead, born Feb- 
ruary 11, 1881, died February 22, 1881. 
They have two children living, Moorhead 
Benezet, born September 3, 1884, and Fran- 
cis Raymond, born January 10, 1886. 

Clarence Linden Howes was born at 
Mattapoisett, Mass., March 24, 1848, and 
fitted for college at Hanover Academy, Han- 
over, Mass. For two years after graduation 
he was engaged in teaching in the public 
school of Pembroke, Mass., Spencertown 
Academy, Austerlitz, N. Y., and the High 
School of Rockland, Mass. In the fall of 
1871, he entered upon a course of study in 
the higher mathematics and modern lan- 
guages in the Massachusetts Institute of 
Technology at Boston, where he received 
the degree of S.B. in the C. E. department 
in 1873. For the next two years, until the 
close of 1875, he practiced the profession of 
civil engineer, being employed in the U. S. 
Harbor and River Survey, the U. S. Coast 
Survey, on the Troy and Greenfield R. R., in 
the vicinity of the Hoosac Tunnel, and in 
land surveying near Boston. In 1876 he 
began the study of medicine, and while 



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prosecuting his studies taught for a year in the 
Eliot Grammar and Boston Latin Schools. 
He took his first course of lectures at the 
medical school connected with Dartmouth 
College, in the fall of 1877, and the second at 
the Long Island College Hospital, where he 
received the degree of M.D. June, 1878. He 
at once began the practice of his profession 
in Hanover, Mass., where he still resides. 
He was married October 3, 1878, to Miss 
Mary O. Hapgood, of Worcester. They 
have two children, Frederick Hapgood, born 
August 29, 1879, and Caroline Bradford, born 
July 8, 1883. For the last eight years he has 
been Chairman of the School Committee of 
the town. After an absence of eighteen 
years from Amherst, Howes was present at 
the recent reunion of the class. He easily 
captured and carried off the honors of the 
class supper by his " desultory remarks " and 
the song he had composed for the occasion. 

William Amasa Keese was born December 
23, 1846, at Louisville, Miss., and fitted for 
college at the High School, Lowell, Mass. 

The first year after graduation was spent 
in teaching in a private school at Stamford, 
Conn. He then began his theological studies 
at the Seminary at Newton, Mass. During 



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his Seminary course he filled an important 
position for several months in the Literary 
and Scientific Institute of New London, N. 
H. Graduating at Newton in 1873, he was 
ordained July 81, of that year, and became 
pastor of the Baptist church of Ellsworth, 
Me. After a most successful pastorate of four 
years he accepted a call, April 1877, to the 
Calvary Baptist Church, of Salem, Mass. 
Here he remained until June 1883, when he 
resigned and spent the summer in travel in 
Europe. The following autumn he resumed 
work again as pastor of the Cary Avenue 
Baptist Church, of Chelsea, Mass. This 
relationship continued until December, 1888, 
when he resigned, with a view to a change in 
his denominational status. In February, 
1889, he accepted a call to the Trinity Con- 
gregational Church in Lawrence, Mass., and 
was installed as pastor, April 11, 1889. 

He has been most happy and successful in 
his ministry. We never suspected him of 
anything but cheerfulness, but he writes : 
*' The effect of a peaceful life, with a 
reasonable average of health and comfort, 
and all the appreciation I have deserved, has 
undermined a certain melancholy which 
sometimes troubled me, and I believe I am 
now as serene and cheerful as the majority." 



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Keese was married February 15, 1876, to 
Miss Elizabeth E. Hedge of East Charlotte, 
Vt. They have three daughters, Marion 
Ashton, born May 2, 1881 ; Ethel Margaret, 
born October 25, 1882, and Ruth Esther, 
born February 18, 1884. 

John Edward Kellogg was born in Am- 
herst, Mass., July 2, 1845. His preparation for 
college was begun at the Amherst Academy, 
continued at the Amherst High School, and 
completed at the Williston Seminary, East- 
Hampton, in the class of 1865. 

Since graduation he has devoted himself to 
journalism. For sixteen months he was 
connected with the Springfield Republican^ 
then for eighteen months with the New 
England Associated Press in New York City. 
Then for six months he was engaged upon 
the Taunton Gazette^ Taunton, Mass. 

In February, 1873, he bought an interest in 
the Sentinel Printing Company, of Fitchburg, 
Mass., and in May of that year the first 
number of the Fitchburg Daily Sentinel was 
issued. Since that time Kellogg has been one- 
half owner, and editor of the Senti?ieL Of 
this paper the History of Fitchburg, published 
in 1887, says : " The Daily Sentinel has been 
well conducted, and has continued vigorous 



62 CLASS OF iSbg 



and healthy to the present time. In October, 
1881, the paper was enlarged, again in 
September, 1885, and a third time in October, 
1886." 

Kellogg has contributed at various times 
to several of the New York papers, and is 
the Fitchburg agent of the Associated Press. 
He has also served as Clerk of the Common 
Council of Fitchburg. 

Kellogg is wedded to his profession of 
journalism, but not otherwise, so far as we 
can learn. 

* Alvah Baylies Kittredge, son of Rev. 
Charles Baker and Sarah (Brigham) Kittredge, 
was born at Westborough, Mass., February 3, 
1845. He began his preparation for college 
at Groton Academy, of which he was a mem- 
ber about one year. July 17, 1864, he 
enlisted in the 6th Regiment Massachusetts 
Infantry, which was stationed a short time at 
Arlington Heights, and for the rest of his 
term of service at Fort Delaware in charge of 
rebel prisoners. He was regularly discharged 
October 27, 1864, and then completed his 
preparation for college with the Rev. James 
Tufts, of Monson. Immediately upon his 
graduation he was appointed instructor in 
gymnastics in Amherst College, a place for 



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which he was well fitted by his service as 
captain of his class during the whole of the 
college course. He remained nearly a year 
in this position, but was compelled to leave 
Amherst during the month of June on account 
of pulmonary hemorrhage. He was married 
October 3, 1870, to Miss Alice W. Gordon, of 
Auburndale, Mass., and died the following 
day at his father's residence in Westborough, 
Mass. His death placed the first star upon 
the roll of the graduate members of our class. 

Stephen Holmes Larned was born July 
10, 1847, at Dudley, and fitted for college at 
Nichols Academy in his native town. For 
many years after graduation he was engaged 
as an accountant. The first year was spent 
with the Messrs. Slater, woolen, cotton, and 
linen manufacturers at Webster, Mass. Then 
for three years he was in the employ of N. A. 
Lombard & Co., manufacturers of machinery 
at Worcester, Mass. In 1873 he accepted a 
position with the Sargent Card Clothing Com- 
pany in the same city, with whom he remained 
until the autumn of 1884. During these years 
his position grew to be one of great responsi- 
bility, involving no little supervision of the 
entire business in the absence of the members 
of the firm, and substantial evidence was 



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given of their appreciation of his valuable 
services. In the latter part of 1884 he 
engaged in business for himself in the manu- 
facture of special lines of hardware, building 
up a large and excellent trade. But the 
"freezing out" policy of older and stronger 
competitors made the enterprise unsatisfac- 
tory, and after two years he disposed of his 
entire plant in Worcester, and entered a new 
field, silk manufacturing. Since the autumn 
of 1886 he has filled the position of general 
superintendent and manager of the manufac- 
turing of the Standard Silk Company of New 
York City, with mills at Paterson and Phillips- 
burg, N. J., and at Tobyhanna, Pa. He 
resides at Phillipsburg. He writes that he 
finds the business both congenial and fascin- 
ating, that he is not known to fame, never 
seeking, nor sought, for public honors, but 
in a quiet round of daily duty trying by 
honest living to reflect credit upon his Alma 
Mater. He has recently been elected Vice- 
President of the Company. 

Larned has been twice married. His first 
wife v/as Miss Hattie N. Boltwood, of Am- 
herst, Mass., to whom he was married July 
20, 1872, and who died May 27, 1873. Their 
child, a son, died in infancy. 

He was again married, January 5, 1876, to 



AMHERST COLLEGE 65 

Miss Susie M. Everett, of Worcester, Mass. 
Of their two children, the elder, Margaret, 
born June 28, 1884, is living ; but the younger, 
Helen, born September 2, 1887, was taken 
from their care August 9, 1888, 

Francis Draper Lewis was born in Bos- 
ton, Mass., August 29, 1849, and prepared 
for college at the Academy of the Protestant 
Episcopal Church, Philadelphia, Pa. The 
two years after graduation were spent as a 
law student at Harvard University, from 
which he received the degree of LL.B. in 
June, 1871. The following September he 
entered the law offices of John C. Bullitt, 
Esq., one of the leading lawyers of the Phila- 
delphia bar. After his admission to the bar, 
May 23, 1872, he remained with Mr. Bullitt 
until March, 1873, when he formed a law part- 
nership with Charles E. Morgan, Jr., Esq. 

This partnership still continues with offices 
at 411 Walnut Street. Much might be said 
about his success in his profession. It may 
all be summed up in this, that he has found a 
place, where it has been said there is always 
room, at the top. 

The summer of 1887 was spent in Europe. 

Lewis kindly contributes two ''salient 
points " in his career during the past tea 



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years, upon both of which the class will most 
heartily congratulate him. He was married 
April 28, 1887, to Miss Mary Humphreys 
Chandler, of Germantown, Philadelphia, by 
the Rev. E. Winchester Donald, D.D. A 
daughter, Mary Chandler Lewis, was born 
August 11, 1888. 

Residence, East Washington Lane, Ger- 
mantown. 

George McCormick was born at Spring 
Run, Franklin Co., Pa., November 24, 1847, 
and prepared for college at the academy 
in his native place, studying for a time 
also at Shade Gap Academy, and also at 
Academia, Pa. His theological course of 
three years was taken at the United Presby- 
terian Seminary, at Allegheny City, Pa., from 
which he graduated in March, 1872. During 
the summer of 1870 he taught in a normal 
school at Dayton, Pa., and from July to 
October, 1871, he supplied the United Pres- 
byterian Church of Centreville, Mich. In 
the Summer of 1872 he accepted a call to 
the church in Butler, Pa., beginning work 
there July 21, and was ordained and installed 
pastor October 22 of that year. Having 
visited California in March, 1873, on his 
return he was released from his pastorate at 



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Butler, and removed in August to Salinas 
City, Cal,, the county seat of Monterey Co. 
Here he became pastor of the United Pres- 
byterian Church, and here he continues after 
a pastorate of sixteen years, an exceptionally 
long one for the Pacific Coast. His expecta- 
tion of doing his life work there seems in a 
fair way of fulfilment. He has been greatly 
prospered in his work and his church has 
grown steadily in number and in strength. 
He preaches without notes, and last year in 
his zeal for prohibition took the stump for 
Fisk and Brooks. 

He visited the Atlantic States in 1883, and 
in 1886 came as far East as Kansas to attend 
a family reunion. He is the author of a 
Normal Course of '^ Hints and Helps to 
Bible Students." 

He was married to Miss Annie E. Fergu- 
son, at Dry Run, Pa., April 18, 1872. Their 
first child, Mary Blythe, born February 7, 
1873, died December 31, 1876. Another 
daughter, Annie Elizabeth, was born May 5, 
1878. 

James McNeill was born September 18, 
1846, at his present place of abode in the 
town of Greenport, in the suburbs of the city 
of Hudson, N, Y. He fitted for college at 



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the Classical Institute, Hudson. After grad- 
uating he remained at home for several years, 
devoting himself to literary work, and find- 
ing health and recreation in the pursuit of 
agriculture. His attention was drawn to the 
subject of phrenology, and the result cannot 
be given better than in his own words. " In- 
stead of finding a species of fortune-telling, 
unworthy the attention of a liberally educated 
man, which is the generally received idea of 
the subject, I discovered that it was a system 
of mental philosophy, clear, complete and 
definite, one giving an exposition of the 
phenomena of mind eminently rational and 
practically useful. I took a course of instruc- 
tion at the Phrenological Institute, New 
York, and have since devoted myself with 
considerable zeal to the subject. In the fall 
of 1874 I took a trip to Nevada and Cali- 
fornia, where I remained for two years. On 
my return in November, 1876, I entered into 
an agreement with the Phrenological Jour?ial 
to write a series of articles on health and on 
phrenology as contrasted with the mental 
philosophies of the schools. This occupied 
me about a year. On the completion of this 
task, the editor of the Journal requested me 
to co-operate with him in the preparation of an 
elementary work on phrenology which might 



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be used as a text book. I am an earnest 
advocate of the laws which the Creator has 
imposed on our physical and mental consti- 
tutions ; and I have no higher ambition in 
life than to be considered a successful teacher 
and promulgator of the principles of physi- 
ology, hygiene and phrenology." 

This was ten years ago. McNeill now 
writes that the past ten years have been 
spent mostly at home, In 1879 the book 
referred to above was published. It is en- 
titled "Brain and Mind," and has had a 
very good sale. A work on metal science 
founded on phrenology is now in contem- 
plation. 

In 1880 he became interested in bee cul- 
ture and has since been extensively engaged 
in the raising of bees, queens, and honey. 
But sad to tell, he has no queen for his own 
hive. 

Henry Martyn Matthews was born at 
Covington, Wyoming county, N. Y., and fitted 
for college at Middlebury Academy, N. Y. 
The first three years of his college course 
were spent at Union College, and he entered 
Amherst at the beginning of Junior year. 
After graduation, he began the study of law 
in the office of Nichols & Robbins, Buffalo, 



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N. Y., about January 1, 1870. Afterwards he 
entered the office of Laning, Folsom & Willett, 
with whom he was studying when admitted to 
the bar about January 1, 1872. Mr. Folsom, 
of this firm, was the father of Mrs. Grover 
Cleveland. Going West in the latter part 
of 1872, Matthews entered the office of 
Barker, Wait & Hopkins, Chicago, 111. He 
was admitted to the bar of Illinois, February 
25, 1873, and to the U. S. Circuit and District 
Courts, April 28, of the same year. May 1, 
1874, he began practice for himself with an 
office at 88 Washington Street, in 1879 was at 
152 La Salle Street, but is now located in the 
Tacoma Building, N. E. corner La Salle and 
Madison Streets. He is engaged in a general 
law practice, which has brought him before 
all the State Courts, and the U. S. Circuit and 
District Courts, and has built up for himself 
a lucrative practice and a well-deserved 
reputation. 

In 1882 he formed a law partnership with 
Edward A. Dicker, and the firm of Matthews 
& Dicker this spring moved into new and 
elegant offices on the eleventh floor of the 
Tacoma Building, No. 1109. 

In one direction alone is he an unsafe 
counselor, or, it may be, an unsuccessful 
advocate. He is still unmarried. 



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Marcus Whitman Montgomery was 
born June 21, 1839, at Prattsburg, N. Y. 
While yet in his teens he served as a steno- 
grapher in the legislature of Missouri, and at 
the age of twenty was editor and proprietor 
of a newspaper at Portland, Jay County, Ind., 
even at that early age giving evidence of fine 
business capacity, making his paper a financial 
success. At the end of three years, desiring 
a better education, he sold his paper, and 
fitted for college in the preparatory depart- 
ment of Wheaton College, 111. Removing to 
Amherst he completed his preparation with 
Prof. C. H. Parkhurst (class of 1866), and 
entered college in the spring of Freshman 
year. After graduation he went into business 
in Cleveland, O., where he remained until 
1875, making in this time about |25,000. 
Sudden reverses swept it away, and he took 
the consequent opportunity of release from 
business care to complete his preparation for 
the ministry. His theological course of 
three years was taken at Yale Theological 
Seminary, where he graduated May 16, 1878. 
During his seminary course he prepared a 
" History of the English Bible," but it is not 
yet ready for publication. After graduating 
at Yale Seminary, he was urged to take charge 
of a Congregational church in Fort Scott, 



72 CLASS OF iStq 



Kan., with the special end in view of raising 
money to pay off a heavy debt resting upon 
the church. In June he visited the place, 
undertook the work, and returning to the 
East, spent the summer in raising the neces- 
sary funds. The entire indebtedness of 
|10,000 was canceled. Montgomery was 
settled as pastor of the church in November, 
1878. His labors were richly blessed, and a 
good work done. 

Finding that climate unsuitable, in 1880 he 
took the New England agency of Washburn 
College, Topeka, Kan., and removed to 
Newtonville, Mass., but was hardly settled in 
his new work, when he was called by the 
American Home Missionary Society to be its 
superintendent for Minnesota and Northern 
Dakota. Accepting the call he removed in 
1881 to Minneapolis, where he still resides. 

In 1884 he visited Sweden and Norway to 
investigate the free-church movement in those 
countries, and on his return wrote the book 
entitled, *'A Wind from the Holy Spirit in 
Sweden and Norway." This report made a 
profound impression among the Congrega- 
tional churches, and awakened them to the 
great and pressing need of missionary work 
among the Scandinavians in our country. 
Montgomery was desired by the American 



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Home Missionary Society to take the super- 
intendence of this new work. In this work he 
has been engaged for the last four years, and 
has given himself to it with apostolic zeal and 
devotion. 

In his annual report of last year he states 
that there were on January 1, 1888, not less 
than two million Scandinavians in the United 
States, including nearly one half the present 
population of Minnesota. That element of 
her population in Minnesota has doubled 
within five years. 

At the request of the Secretaries of the 
Society, Montgomery visited Utah in the 
autumn of 1887, where the Scandinavian 
Mormon population is estimated at 40,000. 
He gives the results of that visit in his report, 
and the following quotation will be of special 
interest : 

''The next step taken was to do what the 
Lord burdened me to do against the mighty 
wickedness of Mormonism by seeking to 
awaken the public conscience to protest 
against the admission of Utah into the Union 
as a State. This I did by writing an article 
for the Congregatlonaltst, by making twenty 
addresses on Mormonism in various parts of 
the country, aud by addressing the United 
States Senate Committee on Territories. To 



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Stem the tide of Scandinavian Mormon con- 
verts from the Old World, I wrote an article 
entitled ' Mormonism Unmasked, a Warning 
to the Scandinavians,' containing some 9,000 
words specially prepared for the situation 
among these people, in which it was sought to 
lay bare the frauds and frightful enormities of 
this great evil. This article was translated 
into Swedish, and into Dano- Norwegian. 
Proof-sheets were sent to all the Scandinavian 
newspapers in the United States, Denmark, 
Sweden, Norway, Finland and Iceland, being 
nearly 1,000 newspapers. In many of them 
it has already appeared. By this method it 
may fairly be said that we have reached 
about all the Scandinavian people with this 
exposure of Mormonism, which can scarcely 
fail to counteract, to some degree at least, 
the work of the Mormon missionaries among 
these people." 

He has since written another book which 
is now passing through the press, entitled 
** The Whole Story about the Mormons." 

In March, 1889, he again visited Sweden, 
and is at present in Stockholm, where he 
expects to remain several months studying 
the Scandinavian languages. 

Montgomery was married July 20, 1859, 
at Pennville, Ind., to Miss Mary R. Votaw. 



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They have four children : Emma B., born 
October 19, 1862 ; Plymouth G., born 
March 15, 1866 ; Whitman M., born Sep- 
tember 8, 1872, and Forest H., born August 
22, 1874. 

Residence and P. O. address, 408 Nicollet 
Ave., Minneapolis, Minn. 

Charles Stedman Newhall was born 
October 4, 1842, at Boston, Mass., and fitted 
for college at Williston Seminary, Easthamp- 
ton, Mass. 

In the fall of 1869 he began the study of 
theology at Union Theological Seminary, 
New York City, where he graduated in 1872. 
After travelling for a few months at the 
South, he became pastor of the Congrega- 
tional Church in Oriskany Falls, N. Y., where 
he was ordained December 11, 1872, and 
where he remained for a year and a half. In 
1874 he became the acting pastor of a Pres- 
byterian Church in Oceanic, N. J. This was 
his field of labor until January, 1879, when 
he went abroad, going directly to Constanti- 
nople, and making the tour of Egypt and the 
Holy Land. 

Soon after his return home he went out to 
Iowa and spent four years in that State, from 
1880 to 1882 in charge of the Congregational 



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Church at Postville, and from October, 1882 
to 1884 at Tipton. Returning East, after a 
year at Plainfield, N. J., in 1885 he became 
stated supply of the Presbyterian Church at 
Keeseville, Essex Co., N. Y., where he re- 
mained for two years. He is now in charge 
of the Presbyterian Church at Point Pleas- 
ant, N. J. 

Literary work has from time to time occu- 
pied his attention, and he has published 
several volumes. His *' History of Fall 
River " has gained him distinction as a local 
historian, and three books for the Sunday 
School Library have been widely commended. 
" Joe and the Howards ; or Armed with 
Eyes,*' appeared soon after he left college, 
and was calculated to awaken the interest of 
children in natural history. ''Harry's Trip 
to the Orient," published by the American 
Tract Society, presents the story of eastern 
travel in a way to fascinate the boys ; and 
" Ruthie's Story," recently issued by the 
Presbyterian Board of Publication, gives the 
story of Jesus as told by one girl to others. 

Newhall has amended his report of ten 
years ago. He is no longer a bachelor. His 
marriage to Miss Kitty Harvey, of Oceanic, 
N. J., occured March 7, 1881. They have 
three children, Charles A., born March 6, 



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1882; Luther, born February 9, 1884, and 
Katherine, born October 5, 1886. 
P. O. address, Point Pleasant, N. J. 

John Adams Page was born in Haverhill, 
Mass., October 27, 1847, and fitted for 
college at the High School of his native 
place. After graduation he taught for two 
years, first as principal of the academy at 
Penfield, Monroe Co., N. Y.; afterward as 
principal of the High School at Ashland, 
Mass., and finally as assistant in a boys' 
boarding school at Flatbush, L. I. The next 
three years were spent in New York city, as 
cashier and book-keeper for Dodd & Mead, 
book publishers. 

In 1874 he returned to Haverhill, and in the 
autumn began the study of law in the office 
of ex-Mayor J. K. Jennes. Admitted to the 
bar March 12, 1878, he remained in the 
same 'office, as the associate of Mr. Jennes, 
until September, 1879, when he opened an 
office by himself and soon became estab- 
lished in a lucrative practice. In 1882 he 
became the cashier of the Haverhill Co- 
operative Bank, continuing at the same time 
his law practice. This arrangement con- 
tinued for five years, when the strain of 
double work made itself felt, and in October, 



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1887, his health gave way completely so that 
he was obliged to resign his position in the 
bank and close his law office. During the 
winter and spring of 1888, with his wife 
(Page was married September 15, 1886, to 
Miss Annie D. Webb, of Bradford, Mass.) he 
travelled extensively in the South in search 
of health, and spent much of the following 
summer in the British Provinces. Last No- 
vember he re-opened his office and has been 
able to do some business, with health partially 
restored. 

In March, 1889, he writes : " I am very 
slowly, but steadily, gaining, though still far 
from being entirely well. It pains me very 
much to think that I shall not be able to be 
at the class re-union this summer." 

Address, Daggett Building, Haverhill, Mass. 

Charles Ransom Pratt was born Janu- 
ary 24, 1847, at Elmira, N. Y., and fitted for 
college at the Union School, Schenectady, 
N. Y. Entering Union College in 1865, he 
took the first three years of his college course 
in that institution, entering our class at the 
beginning of Senior year. 

After graduation he studied law in Elmira, 
N. Y., and was admitted to the bar January, 
1872. He has resided in Elmira ever since, 



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attending to his law practice, and since Sep- 
tember, 1879, when he became Cashier of the 
Second National Bank of Elmira, combining 
with it banking. He was Cashier until Janu- 
ary, 1886, and is now Vice-President of the 
bank. 

Pratt was married April 10, 1879, to Miss 
Jane E. Carrier, of Cuba, N. Y. They have 
three children. Ransom, born April 16, 1880 ; 
Alvord, born November 8, 1881, and Sarah, 
born February 18, 1886. 

Amos Bancroft Putnam was born Febru- 
ary 27, 1846, at Groton, Mass., and fitted for 
college at Lawrence Academy in his native 
place. 

For a year after graduation he was engaged 
in teaching at Grantville, in the town of 
Needham, Mass. In 1870 he engaged in 
business and for several years was a manufac- 
turer at Nashua, N. H. In 1878 he removed 
to Boston, and entered the office of Morss & 
Whyte, 75 Cornhill, in whose employ he still 
remains. They are extensive wire manufac- 
turers. For a time he resided in Cambridge- 
port, but his home is now at 91 Bowdoin 
Street. 

He was married January 4, 1873, to Miss 
Fannie Farnsworth, of Groton, Mass. His 
wife died in 1887. 



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John William Quinby was born October 
4, 1833, at Coxsackie, Greene County, N. Y,, 
and fitted for college at Fairfield Seminary, 
Herkimer County, N. Y. His studies were 
interrupted by service in the army during 
the Rebellion, and he entered Amherst at 
the beginning of the Junior year. After 
graduation he spent a year and a half at the 
Divinity School at Cambridge, Mass., and 
September 7, 1871, was settled as pastor of 
the Unitarian Church of East Bridgewater, 
Mass. Here he still remains. 

Henry Bullard Richardson was born 
in Franklin, Mass., May 21, 1844. He pre- 
pared for college at Phillips Academy, Exeter, 
N. H. In September, 1869, he entered upon 
his duties as Instructor in Latin and Greek, 
at Amherst College, and occupied that posi- 
tion until March, 1873, when he went abroad, 
remaining until September, traveling in 
France, Switzerland, Germany and Italy. 
The next three years were spent in Spring- 
field, Mass., as classical teacher in the High 
School of that city. In the summer of 1876 
he went a second time to Europe, and studied 
classical philology for two years in the Uni- 
versity of Leipsic. During this time he also 
traveled in Italy, Germany, Holland, and 



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Great Britain. On his return, in the autumn 
of 1888, he again became a member of the 
faculty of Amherst, this time as Instructor in 
Latin and German. In 1879 he was made 
Assistant Professor of Latin and Instructor 
in German. Since 1882 his title has been 
Professor of German. Three more summers 
of travel and study in Europe in 1885, 1886, 
and 1888, have added to his already rich 
equipment for the duties of his professorship. 
He is now a Teuton of the Teutons. He has 
built for himself a beautiful home in Amherst 
on "Faculty" Street, where a young son of 
eight years now receives a share of the train- 
ing which at the time of our last report was 
bestowed upon two daughters. 

Prof. Richardson has made several valuable 
contributions to the literature of both of the 
departments in which he has given instruc- 
tion. He assisted Prof. E. P. Crowell in pre- 
paring an edition of Cicero's " De Senectute " 
and "DeAmicitia" for Chase and Stuart's 
series of classical text books. This was pub- 
lished in 1872. He translated and edited 
from the German of Bender ''A Brief History 
of Roman Literature," issued by Ginn & 
Heath in 1872. In 1887 he prepared a com- 
plete glossary to Lessing's " Emilia Galotti," 
and is now engaged upon an annotated edi- 



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tion of the same work. He has also in prepa- 
ration a " Handbook of German Civilization." 
Richardson was the first of our class to 
marry after graduation. The date was July 
13, 1869, and his wife was Miss Mary E. Lin- 
coln, of Amherst. The two daughters, men- 
tioned above, are Mary Lincoln, born Febru- 
ary 17, 1871, and Carrie Anna, born July 6, 
1874. The son is Henry Stephen, born Jan- 
uary 17, 1881. 

John Kendall Richardson was born July 
11, 1843, at Woburn, Mass., and fitted for 
college at Warren Academy and the High 
School of his native town. 

After graduation, he returned to Amherst 
as Instructor in Mathematics, and occupied 
this position for three years. During this 
time he also gave instruction for two terms 
in the Massachusetts Agricultural College. 
In the spring of 1872 he accepted the princi- 
palship of the Amherst High School, but held 
it only two terms, resigning the following 
November. On the twenty-third of this 
month he sailed for Europe, accompanied by 
his wife. They were about nine months 
traveling in Great Britain, Germany, Switzer- 
land, Italy, and France, and studying for 
three months at Gottingen, and two months 



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at Leipsic. Immediately on his return he 
became Instructor in Classics in Williston 
Seminary, Easthampton, Mass., and remained 
there for three years, during the last year 
having entire charge of all the Latin instruc- 
tion of the school. Resigning in the summer 
of 1876, he accepted a thrice-offered position 
as principal of the classic department of the 
Chickering Institute, in Cincinnati, Ohio. 
Impaired health and an intense desire to 
return to Eastern customs and standards of 
classical study, brought him back, at the end 
of a year, to New England. In the autumn 
of 1877 he received an appointment in the 
Boston Latin School as Junior Master. This 
position he held until 1885, when he became 
a Master in the same institution, and this 
position he still occupies. He has published 
a work on "Ancient America"; also the 
'' Doings of the Newton Natural History 
Society." 

In 1879 he had just begun housekeeping at 
Newton, and here his home remained until 
last year, when he built a house at Wellesley 
Hills, a few miles farther out from Boston, 
on the Boston and Albany Railroad, which 
he has occupied since November. 

He was married August 18, 1869, to Miss 
Louisa C. Shepard, of Woburn, Mass. 

P. O. address Wellesley Hills, Mass. 



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* Julius Sanderson, the son of Courtlon 
and Lydia Hunt (Clapp) Sanderson, was 
born at Phillipston, Mass., September 15, 
1846. His preparation for college was made 
at Phillips Academy, Andover. After gradu- 
ating at Amherst, he spent a few months with 
friends in Hudson, N. Y., and early in 1870 
he became clerk in the Troy House, Troy, 
N. Y. This position he held until his failing 
health convinced him that he needed more 
out-door work, and in March, 3 874, he 
became travelling agent for E. W. Boughton 
& Co., dealers in hats and furs in the same 
city. With them he continued as long as he 
was able to do any work. The last months of 
his life were spent at home at Phillipston. His 
death, which occurred Sunday June 3, 1877, 
was the result of a bronchial difficulty from 
which he had long suffered, and which finally 
ended in consumption. He was never mar- 
ried. Appreciative tributes to the memory 
of our classmate by Kellogg and Chickering 
may be found in the Decennial Record of 
our class. 

William Russell Scarritt was born at 
Alton, 111., July 14, 1846, and made his pre- 
paration for college at St. Louis, Mo., his 
place of residence at the time of entering 



AMHERST COLLEGE gg 

college. The first year of his college course 
was taken at Yale, and he entered our class 
at the beginning of sophomore year. 

After graduation he entered Union Theo- 
logical Seminary, New York City, where he 
took the full course of three years. In the 
spring of 1872 he went abroad, traveling 
through the principal countries of Europe, 
and returning in the autumn. Upon his 
return he took up his residence in St. Louis, 
and continued his theological studies. Re- 
moving to New York, he pursued his studies 
privately in that city until 1875, when he 
entered Union Seminary again, and remained 
there one year as post-graduate. In 1876 he 
accepted a call to a Presbyterian Church in 
Olathe, Kan., where he was ordained and 
installed pastor in April, 1877. I-Iere he 
remained until 1880, when he resigned and 
spent the following year in travel and study. 
In 1881 he became pastor of the Presbyterian 
Church at Wamego, Kan. He resigned this 
charge in 1883, and in the autumn of that 
year went with his family to reside at 
Amherst, Mass., where he remained for a 
year and a half, giving his entire time to 
philosophical studies, preaching frequently 
upon the Sabbath. In the spring of 1885 he 
accepted a call to the Congregational Church 



86 CLASS OF iSbq 



of Fayette, Iowa, but in February, 1886, 
changed his field of labor to Marshalltown, a 
place of 10,000 people in Central Iowa, on 
the Northwestern R. R., and also on the Iowa 
Central R. R. This is his home still. 

He has made several contributions to the 
periodical press. A recent article, treating 
of the " new theology," entitled " The Last 
Appeal in Theology." which appeared in the 
December, 1888, number of Our Day has 
attracted wide-spread attention in theological 
circles. 

The degree of D. D., was conferred upon 
him in 1880 by Lane University, Kansas. 

Dr. Scarritt says that the health of himself 
and family is good, and that his interest in 
our Alma Mater suffers no diminution with 
years, but rather increases. 

He was married June 5, 1877, at Olathe, 
Kan., to Miss Lizzie B. Mariner. They have 
three children, William R., Jr., born June 23, 
1878 ; Louise Alberta Fuller, born August 
17, 1880 ; and Enid Mariner, born November 
28, 1884. 

Joseph Bartlett Seabury was born 
March 17, 1846, in the city of New Bedford, 
Mass., and fitted for college under Dr. Taylor, 
at Phillips Academy, Andover. After gradu- 



AMHERST COLLEGE 87 

ation two years were spent in teaching, in 
connection with the High School of Taunton, 
Mass, Beginning there his preparation for 
the ministry he took the regular course of 
three years at Andover Theological Seminary, 
graduating in June, 1874, The year follow- 
ing was spent mainly in California, and during 
six months of this time he preached to a 
small congregation in the vicinity of San 
Francisco, near the State University at 
Berkeley. 

September 8, 1875, he was ordained, and 
installed pastor of the John St. Congrega- 
tional Church of Lowell, Mass., where he 
remained for nearly seven years until May 2, 
1882. In June, 1882, he sailed for Europe, 
accompanied by Mrs. Seabury. They made 
the usual summer round of travel, his wife 
returning home in the autumn. Seabury 
remained abroad, visiting Rome, Cairo, the 
Holy Land, Damascus, Constantinople and 
Athens, reaching this country on his return 
June 23, 1883, just one year after sailing 
from New York, 

February 4, 1885, he was installed pastor of 
the First Congregational Church at Dedham, 
Mass., where he still remains, enjoying ''a 
quiet, but busy pastorate." He writes that 
he has published nothing beyond several 



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sermons of an anniversary and occasional 
character, and newspaper articles. The 250th 
anniversary of his church was observed 
November 18, 1888, and his sermon preached 
at that time, with other addresses, have been 
published in a handsome volume. 

Seabury was married September 30, 1874, 
to Miss Martha Daniels Mason, of Andover, 
Mass. Two children were reported in 1879, 
Helena Mason, born February 29, 1876, who 
died August 15, 1878 ; and Warren Bartlett, 
born September 17, 1877. Warren has now 
three brothers, Joseph Stowe, born November 
28, 1879 ; Mason Hovey, born September 30, 
1884 ; and Mortimer Ashmead, born July 
26,1886. 

Sidney Tuthill Skidmore was born 
August 19, 1844, at Wading River, N. Y., and 
fitted for college at Fort Edward Institute, 
N. Y. The first year after graduation was 
spent in Gallipolis, O., as principal of Gallia 
Academy. Removing to Norwood, N. J., he 
became principal of a private school, occupy- 
ing the position for a year. The next three 
years he was connected with the Moravian 
school at Bethlehem, Penn., as teacher of 
natural science. While at Bethlehem he was 
licensed to preach by the Conference of the 
Moravian Church, November 20, 1872. 



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Subsequently he studied for four months at 
the Stevens Institute, Hoboken, N. J., and 
then gave instruction for six months in the 
University of Pennsylvania as assistant pro- 
fessor of physics. 

In 1876, he accepted the professorship of 
physics and astronomy in the Girls' Normal 
School of Philadelphia, situated at the corner 
of Spring Garden and Seventeenth Streets. 
Here he still remains, and has met with great 
success as an instructor. 

Skidmore writes: "Our institution is very 
large, and my professional life has always 
been a busy one, but excepting a public 
lecture occasionally, or a few public addresses, 
I have done nothing to give me distinction in 
the public eye." 

He is a member of the Wagner Free Insti- 
tute of Science, and President of the Lehigh 
Granolithic Company. 

Skidmore has been twice married. His 
first wife was Miss Mary E. Humphrey, of 
Providence, R. I., to whom he was married 
December 30, 1877, and v/ho died November 
23, 1878, after a brief illness. 

He was again married September 10, 1885, 
to Miss Sadie D. Atkinson, of Philadelphia. 
They have a daughter, Louisa Binney, born 
October 10, 1886. P. O. address, 1706 
North Eighteenth Street, Philadelphia, Pa. 



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WiNFiELD Scott Slocum was born at 
Grafton, Mass., May 1, 1848, and fitted for 
college at the high school of his native town. 
He taught school for three months in the 
autumn of 18G9, at Holden, Mass., and then 
began the study of law in the office of Slocum 
& Staples, in the city of Boston. Here he 
remained, with the exception of three months 
in the fall of 1870, also spent in teaching, 
until admitted to the bar, October 28, 1871. 
Since then he has been practicing law in con- 
nection with his father under the firm title of 
W. F. & W. S. Slocum. Their offices are now 
at 257 Washington Street, Boston, Mass. For 
the past twenty years he has been a resident 
of Newton. In 1874 he was elected as a 
member of the first school committee of that 
city, and served for three years. In April 
1881 he became City Solicitor of Newton, an 
office he continues to fill. In 1887 and 1888 
he served as a member of the House of 
Representatives of Massachusetts. Last win- 
ter he was defeated for the Speakership of 
the House by only a few votes, and, if he will 
consent to remain in public life, a brilliant 
career lies, no doubt, before him. 

He was married at Newtonville, Mass., 
October 7, 1873, to Miss Annie A. Pulsifer. 
Of their three children, the first born, Frederic 



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91 



Pulsifer, born October 25, 1874, died Novem- 
ber 5, 1874. Two are living, Agnes Elizabeth, 
born June 6, 1879 ; and Charles Pulsifer, born 
September 15, 1885. 

Henry Preserved Smith was born October 
23, 1847, at Troy, O., and fitted for college 
at the High School of Dayton, O., his place of 
residence at the time of entering Amherst. 
The three years following graduation were 
spent at Lane Theological Seminary, Cin- 
cinnati, O. In 1872 he went abroad, and 
spent two years in travel, and in the study of 
philosophy and theology at the University of 
Berlin. In the spring of 1873 he visited 
Palestine. During the seminary year of 1874- 
1875 he filled the position of instructor in 
church history in Lane Theological Seminary, 
and the following year was instructor in 
Hebrew at the same institution. He was 
ordained in June 1875. In 1876 he went 
abroad the second time, remaining a year, 
spending a portion of it at Paris, but most 
of the time (two full semesters) studying 
Hebrew and the cognate languages at the 
University of Leipsic. Returning in Septem- 
ber, 1877, he accepted the chair of assistant 
professor of Hebrew in Lane Theological 
Seminary. In 1879 he was appointed Pro- 



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fessor of Hebrew and Old Testament Exegesis 
in the same institution, which position he still 
occupies. While he has published no book 
as yet, many valuable articles from his pen 
have appeared in the reviews. Among them 
may be mentioned the following : *' In the 
Presbyterian Review, articles on " Mediaeval 
Jewish Theology," " The Critical Theories of 
Julius Wellhausen," " The Revised Version 
and the Old Testament Text." In the 
Bibliaiheca Sacra, on "Ancient Bookmaking." 
\xv Hebraica, on "The Text of Jeremiah," 
"The Targum to Jeremiah," and "The Text 
of Micah." 

Besides these he has written a number 
of minor notes, criticisms and discussions, 
generally of Old Testament topics. 

From a letter received from Smith we 
quote : " My life has been an uneventful 
one. I have a happy home, am located on 
the grounds of the seminary I serve, con- 
venient to my work, within the city limits 
(at Walnut Hills), yet enough retired for a 
student. My course has been marked out for 
me without special effort on my part. I enjoy 
study, as everyone does who gets far enough 
along really to study, and I enjoy teaching, 
fitting men for usefulness in the noblest of 
callings. Though I have not published a 



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93 



book as yet, I have put a good deal of time 
and labor into literary work. Latterly I have 
devoted my spare time to investigating the 
state of the Hebrew text of the Old Testa- 
ment, and if I should get far enough along to 
publish anything of permanent value, it will 
be in that line." 

Your historian can testify to what a happy 
and charming home our classmate has in that 
beautiful suburb of Cincinnati, as it was his 
privilege to be Prof, Smith's guest for ten 
days during the sessions of the Presbyterian 
General Assembly in May, 1885. 

In 1887 Smith spent the summer abroad with 
his family. He has the right now to append 
D.D. twice to his name, having received the 
degree from his Alma Mater in 1886, and 
from Princeton College in 1887. 

He was married December 27, 1877 to Miss 
Anna Macneale, of Cincinnati. They have 
four children, but the youngest was called 
away while yet a babe. Their names are 
Winifred, born April 4, 1879 ; Preserved, born 
July 22,1880; Neale Macneale, born February 
28, 1883, and Donald Mayo, born September 
5, 1885, died March 14, 1886. 

P. O. address, Lane Theological Seminary, 
Cincinnati, O. 



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WiNTHROP Smith was born October 22, 
1846, in Cincinnati, O, and prepared for 
college at Stockbridge, Mass. Since gradua- 
tion he has been engaged in banking, and is 
the senior member of the firm of Winthrop 
and Percy Smith, Bankers, 324 Chestnut 
Street, Philadelphia, Pa. He has been 
fortunate at different times in rescuing 
thirteen people from drowning. 

His life has been devoted mainly to his 
business and institutions pertaining to bank- 
ing, being a director in the Penn National 
Bank, United Security Life Insurance and 
Trust Co. and Philadelphia Mortgage and 
Trust Co. As a private citizen, neither seek- 
ing nor accepting political office, he has 
always taken great interest in the politics of 
the Republican party, and has contributed 
his share toward its successes. For ten years 
he has been a director of the Union League 
Club of Philadelphia, active in its manage- 
ment and proud of the grand old institution 
so well known for its war history. 

He was married at Arlington, Mass., 
November 29, 1871, to Miss M. Florence 
Chapman. Five sons have come to their 
home, but of these two have been taken away. 
Their names are W. Brentwood, born March 
29, 1873 ; Edward Chapman, born May 15, 



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95 



1875 ; Barteau Sargent, born September 19, 
1876, died September 25, 1886 ; Harold, born 
December 29, 1877 ; Hermon Batterson, born 
October 26, 1879, died December 12, 1879. 

Edwin Charles Stickel was born De- 
cember 1, 18M, at Lewisberry, Penn. His 
preparation for college was made in the Pre- 
paratory Department of Oberlin College, O. 
At this institution he took the first part of 
his college course, entering Amherst Junior 
year. 

For two years after graduation he was 
principal of the public school of Selma, Ala. 
In 1871 he entered Andover Theological 
Seminary, where he took the regular course 
of three years. The year after graduation at 
Andover was spent in Talladega, Ala., as 
instructor in Latin and associate pastor in 
the college church in Talladega College. He 
was ordained at Oberlin, O., September 20, 
1875. For two years afterward he was pastor 
-of a Congregational church in Montgomery, 
Ala. His work at the South was under the 
auspices of the American Missionary Asso- 
ciation. December 1, 1877, he became 
acting pastor of a Congregational church at 
Mazo Manie, Wis., and two years later at 
Boscobel, Wis. After these four years he 



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was obliged to close his work in Wisconsin 
on account of trouble with his eyes. A year 
was spent in Ohio in business life for the 
sake of rest and change, when he was called 
again to the work in the South as treasurer, 
instructor and preacher in Tougaloo Uni- 
versity, Miss. Two years were spent there, 
when in 1884 he was transferred by the 
American Missionary Association to the 
larger and more responsible position of 
treasurer and business manager of Fisk Uni- 
versity, Nashville, Tenn. He writes that he 
is occupied with the work involved in such a 
position with the added work of preaching 
and lecturing in turn with other members of 
the Faculty to the University church. 

Stickel has been married twice. His first 
wife. Miss Anna W. Spencer, to whom he was 
married August 1, 1870, died during the fol- 
lowing year at Selma, Ala. He was married 
again August 2, 1874, to Miss Luretta R. 
Chamberlin, at Oberlin, O. They have one 
child. Alma Luretta, born August 15, 1877. 

Francis Hovey Stoddard was born 
April 25, 1847, at Middlebury, Vt., and fitted 
for college under the instruction of Prof. 
Josiah Clark of Northampton, Mass. After 
graduation he taught for two years in a 



AMHERST COLLEGE gy 

private school in Westchester, N. Y., then 
engaged in business, for a time in New York 
City, but in 1873 became a cotton manufac- 
turer at Northampton. He was married May 
14, 1873, to Miss Lucy M. Smith, of Spring- 
field, Mass.: he has one child, Lucy, born 
August 15, 1874. 

The above statements, condensed from the 
first edition of this chronicle, are still true, 
despite the lapse of years. For a few years 
more Stoddard continued to give his atten- 
tion mainly to business, but engaged also in 
literary work as he had leisure, contributing 
papers to TAe New Englander and to other 
Reviews. One of these papers, on " The 
Modern Novel," published in September, 
1883, was very widely noticed. In 1884 
Stoddard sold his manufacturing interests 
and sailed for England with his family, pro- 
posing to devote his whole time to literary 
pursuits. For two years he remained abroad, 
studying English literature, mainly at the 
University of Oxford, spending also one 
half-year in Germany. In the autumn of 
1886 he was called to the University of Cali- 
fornia to take the position of instructor in 
English Literature. In 1888 he was called 
to the University of the City of New York to 
take a newly endowed chair under the title of 



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Professor of the English Language and 
Literature. It may be stated here that he 
was chosen for this professorship out of 
seven others who had been recommended to 
the Board of Directors. 

Since 1884 Stoddard has been a frequent 
contributor to the literary reviews, one of his 
later articles being on ''Tolstoi and Matthew 
Arnold," in the Andover Review for October, 
1888. He has also published a work on the 
** Mysteries and Miracle Plays of the Middle 
Ages," a second edition of which will soon 
be issued, and is engaged at the present time 
upon several works of like character. 

P. O. address. University of the City of 
New York, N. Y. City. Stoddard expects to 
spend the summer of 1889 in England. 

Albert Francis Tenney was born July 24, 
1847, at South Braintree, Mass., and fitted for 
college at the High School in Salem, Mass. 
For the first year after graduation he was at 
the head of the classical department in an 
Episcopal academy in Philadelphia. In the 
autumn of 1870 he began the study of 
theology at Union Theological Seminary, New 
York City, where he remained for two years. 
During the school year of 1872 and 1873, he 
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Wilmington, Del. From 1873 to 1882 he was 
an instructor in St. John's School, Sing Sing, 
N. Y. After passing the examinations 
required in the Protestant Episcopal Church, 
he was ordained to the Diaconate, June 4, 
1882, and was immediately elected rector of 
All Saints' church at Briar Cliff, near Sing 
Sing. 

October 1, 1884, he became rector of Grace 
Church, Madison, N. J., which position he 
resigned April 2, 1888. After taking charge 
of St. Philip's Church in Philadelphia from 
April 29 to August 1, and serving in various 
other parishes during the summer and fall of 
that year, he became assistant minister of St. 
Ann's-on-the-Heights, in the city of Brooklyn, 
N. Y., where he is now serving. 

He was married August 16, 1876, to Miss 
Elizabeth Russell Wallace, of Philadelphia, 
Pa., but we grieve to record her death, which 
occurred last year, March 31, 1888. He has 
two children, Albert Francis, Jr., born July 
15, 1878, and Laura Wallace, born July 
5, 1880. 

P. O. address, 262 Henry Street, Brooklyn, 
N. Y. 

Daniel Greenleaf Thompson was born 
at Montpelier, Vt., February 9, 1850, and his 



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preparation for college was made in the 
Washington County Grammar School of his 
native place. In the autumn of 1869 he 
served his last term as Assistant Secretary of 
the State of Vermont, after which he removed 
to New York City, where he gave private 
instruction, and studied law with G. R. 
Thompson, Esq., his brother. In April, 1870, 
he accepted a position as teacher of classics 
in the Springfield, Mass., High School, where 
he remained until the summer of 1872. In 
July of this year he published, from the press 
of S. C. Griggs & Co., an elementary work, 
"A First Book in Latin," which met with very 
favorable notice all over the country. In the 
autumn of 1872 he resumed the study of law 
in New York City ; was admitted to the bar 
December 13 of that year, and has been in 
practice ever since. For nearly four years he 
was a law partner of T. L. Stiles (class 
of 1871), in the firm of Jordan, Stiles & 
Thompson. 

After this he formed a copartnership with 
Simon Sterne and Oscar S. Straus, late 
United States Minister to Turkey, under the 
firm name of Sterne, Straus & Thompson ; 
and subsequently, on the retirement of Mr. 
Straus, under the firm name of Sterne & 
Thompson. In 1886 he formed a new con- 



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nection, which at present continues at No. 35 
Wall Street, under the firm name of Thomp- 
son, Ackley & Kaufman. During all periods 
since his graduation he has been engaged in 
systematic literary work. 

It was his intention to follow up his " First 
Book in Latin " with a series of Latin works, 
but his change of occupation prevented. In 
April, 1871, a paper of his on *' Oratory and 
Vocal Culture," appeared in the Massa- 
chusetts Teacher^ of Boston. 

In the summer of 1876 he published three 
articles in the Liberal Christian on " Collyer 
and Orthodoxy," "Skepticism and Criticism," 
and ^' The Universality of Christianity and 
the Church ;" also a sequel to these in the 
Fitchburg (Mass.) Sentinel on " The True 
Basis of Church Fellowship." 

He also has been a frequent contributor to 
Mind, a quarterly review of psychology and 
philosophy, published in London ; to the 
Popular Science Monthly, published in New 
York, and to various other journals and 
reviews. In 1884 he published through the 
house of Longmans & Co., in London, ^'A 
System of Psychology," in two volumes, 8vo. 
of 600 pages each. This was followed in 
1886 by '' The Problem of Evil" a continua- 
tion of his psychological work into the field 
of Ethics. 



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In 1888 appeared the " Religious Senti- 
ments of the Human Mind," and in 1889 
another volume entitled " Social Progress." 
He has other works in process of completion. 
He has never held political office in New 
York City, although he has been identified 
with various political movements, notably 
those relating to Civil Service, Revenue, and 
High License reform. He is at present a 
Vice-President of the New York Alumni 
Association of Amherst College. Upon the 
death of Courtlandt Palmer, Esq., he was 
elected to the presidency of the 19th Century 
Club, which position he still holds. His 
residence is No. 222 West Twenty-Third 
Street, New York City. 

I^Iarch 31, 1881 he married Henrietta 
Gallup, of Cleveland, Ohio, but has no 
children. 

Alfred Edwards Tracy was born July 
2, 1845, at West Brookfield, Mass., and fitted 
for college at the Plattsville and Lancaster 
academies, Wisconsin. In the autumn of 
1869 he entered Chicago Theological Semi- 
nary. During the summer vacation, from 
May until September, 1870, he was engaged 
in home mission work in Missouri, with head- 
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Lebanon and Marshfield, and organizing a 
church in the latter place- The second and 
third year of his theological course were taken 
at Andover Seminary, where he graduated 
June, 1872. It was his intention to go abroad 
as a foreign missionary, but, prevented by the 
illness of his wife, he accepted a call to the 
Congregational church of Harvard, Mass., 
where he was ordained and installed Septem- 
ber 4, 1872. Here he remained until June, 
1874, when he was compelled, on account of 
the state of Mrs. Tracy's health, to resign, 
and spent the summer at Clifton Springs, 
N. Y. In December, 18T4, he accepted a call 
to become pastor of a Congregational church 
at Oconomowoc, Waukesha County, Wis., a 
favorite summer resort for the people of 
Chicago and St. Louis. Here he remained 
until November 1, 1878, when he accepted an 
invitation to supply the Congregational 
church of North Springfield, Mo., for six 
months. 

While at Harvard, Mass., he served as 
Chairman of the Board of Education, and at 
Oconomowoc as Superintendent of the city 
schools. In June 1879 he returned East, and 
in August accepted a call to Wilton, N. H. 
Here he remained until May 1885, when he 
removed to Foxboro', Mass., and became 



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pastor of the Congregational Church. In 
the autumn of 1886 he was a delegate to the 
National Council of Congregational Churches, 
held in Chicago. In 1888 the condition of 
the health of his family, and the advice of 
physicians turned his thought toward Cali- 
fornia. Receiving a call to Ontario, CaL, he 
resigned, and in October left for the Pacific 
Coast. 

He is now at Ontario, forty miles south of 
Los Angeles, and has charge of a small church, 
which is growing rapidly, having more than 
doubled its members since he went there. 
The prospects of the place are very fine, and 
his account of the oranges, etc., growing there 
is certainly most tantalizing. Tracy is not 
sure that he wants to make California his 
home, but for the present finds it very 
pleasant. 

He was married at Bennington, Vt., July 2, 
1872, to Miss Kate S. Harwood, of Springfield, 
Mass. Of their four children, the eldest. 
Bertha, born July 10, 1873, died November 
2, 1874. There are living, Ira Edwards, born 
June 6, 1878 ; Addie Eliza, born July 21, 
1881 ; and Harwood, born November 22, 
1883. 

Elihu Hilles Votaw was born June 21, 



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1836, at New Garden, Columbiana County, 
Ohio. His preparation for college was made 
at Wheaton College, 111., and by private in- 
struction, at Amherst, under Prof. C. H. 
Parkhurst, now of New York City. 

From the time of graduation until May 31, 
1870, he was engaged in a wholesale lamp 
business in Springfield, Mass , and New York 
City. From September 1, 1870, he taught in 
the Union Free School of Yonkers, N. Y. 
for two years. Removing to Cleveland, O., 
he taught in that city from September 1, 1872, 
until April 17, 1874. May 1, 1874, he com- 
menced preaching in the Congregational 
church of Rockport, O. August 28 of that 
year he was ordained in the Euclid Avenue 
Church, Cleveland, and the following month 
began preaching at Brooklyn, O , where he 
removed March 5, 1875, and where he was 
installed pastor June 9, 1876. 

July 1, 1877, he left this charge, and entered 
upon the pastorate of the Congregational 
church of Berea, O., where he labored until 
August, 1881. After a sojourn of a few 
months at Manhattan, Kan., he removed to 
St. Paul, Minn., and founded the Atlantic 
Congregational Church of that city, where he 
labored until October 1, 1885, when he re- 
moved to Ohio again, and entered upon the 



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pastorate of the First Congregational Church, 
Geneva, Ohio, where he now resides. His 
only published works are a sermon on *' The 
Pillars and Perils of the Republic," Geneva, 
Ohio, November, 1888 ; and a popular lec- 
ture entitled ''Dreams and Day-Dreamers," 
Geneva, 1889. This lecture has made him 
one of the most popular platform speakers in 
Ohio. 

Votaw v/as married September 1, 1859, at 
Liber, Ind., to Miss Hattie Adelaide Webber. 
They have seven children : Mary Theresa, 
born August 18, 1861 ; Clyde Webber, born 
February 6, 1864 ; Martha Eucola, born June 
8, 1866 ; Eldon Merriam, born October 16, 
1868 ; Myrtle Enida, born July 25, 1871 ; 
Harriet Lyravine, born December 28, 1874 ; 
and Emeline Ruth, born April 19, 1879. 
Their eldest daughter was married August 
22, 1888, to Prof. A. W. Brett, of Eureka, 
Kan. Their eldest son graduated last year 
from Amherst. Gentlemen of '69, we are 
growing old. 

* William Hilton Warn, the son of Rich- 
ard Hilton and Margaret (Gray) Warn, was 
born at Martin, Mich., April 25, 1845, and 
was prepared for college at the Union High 
School, Ann Arbor, Mich. After spending 



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two years in Michigan University, he entered 
our class in the autumn of 1866. The two 
years following his graduation were spent in 
the study of medicine, one at the Medical 
Department of Michigan University, the 
other in the College of Physicians and Sur- 
geons, New York City, where he received the 
degree of M.D, in 1871. After practicing 
for a year in Lowell, Mass., and devoting 
another year to farther study in the General 
Hospital at Vienna, Austria, he established 
himself in December, 1873, in Chicago, 111. 
Failing health compelled the seeking of a 
different climate, and after spending a winter 
in Florida, he removed to Denver, Col., where 
he remained till his death from consumption, 
January 7, 1882. Besides holding important 
positions in several medical societies, Dr. 
Warn was, at the time of his death, Professor 
of Gynecology in the recently established 
Medical College at Denver, and editor and 
publisher of the Colorado Medical Journal^ 
the first number of which appeared just 
before his death. 

He was never married. 

Robert McEwen Woods was born January 
24, 1847, at Enfield, Mass. His preparation 
for college was made at the Highland Military 



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Academy, in Worcester, Mass., where he 
studied three years, and was completed by a 
year's subsequent study under the instruction 
of Professor Josiah Clark, of Northampton. 
In the autumn of 1869 he began the study of 
theology, spending the first year at the Union 
Seminary, New York City, and the second 
year at Andover, Mass. In 1871 he accepted 
the position of instructor in English at 
Amherst College, and occupied this position 
until he went abroad in July, 1873. He was 
absent from this country fifteen months, 
visiting the principal countries of Europe, and 
making a tour through Egypt and Palestine, 
During the winter of 1874 and 1875, he 
attended lectures in theology at the Yale 
Divinity School, and from May 1875 until 
November, 1876, was at his home in Enfield. 
The year following he supplied the Congre- 
gational church at Hatfield, Mass., and was 
ordained and installed pastor of the church 
November 21, 1877. Here he still resides. 
But his record at the end of twenty years ends 
very differently from that given ten years ago. 
Let him tell his own story: "I was so 
chagrined at the statement that I was not 
married, made in the closing sentence of the 
notice which was given me in the Decennial 
Report, that I took immediate steps to get a 



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wife. On October 29, 1879, I was married at 
Haverhill, Mass., to Anna Fairbank, daughter 
of the Rev. S. B. Fairbank, D.D., of Ahmed- 
nagar, India, and a graduate of the class of 
1879 of Mt. Holyoke Seminary." 

The class will be interested to know that 
" Bob " has to call Will Ballantine " uncle " 
now, as Mrs. Woods is a niece of the latter. 
Before attempting a list of the children, for 
fear space may fail, let it be stated that our 
classmate has been for many years a Trustee 
of Smith College; and that he occupies at 
Hatfield the house built by Sophia Smith, 
the founder of the college. In 1882 he was 
chosen one of the Overseers of the Charitable 
Fund at Amherst. This gives him the 
privilege of going in to the Alumni dinner 
along with the dignitaries, as we learned in 
1884. In 1886 he was travelling in Europe 
durinsj July and August. 

Now for the children, Josiah Bridges, born 
October 16, 1882, (he is the cup-boy of the 
class of 1879, of Mt. Holyoke Seminary) ; 
Alan Fairbank, born February 3, 1884 ; 
Katharine, born October 29, 1885 ; Charlotte, 
born July 8, 1887, and Margaret, born March 
18, 1889. A young forest ! 



BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD OF 

NON-GRADUATE MEMBERS 

OF THE CLASS. 

Henry Adams was born October 31, 1845, 
at Middlebury, Vt., and fitted for college 
at Williston Seminary, Easthampton, Mass. 
After leaving college, in Junior year, he 
taught for one winter, and then, for nine 
months in 1868 and 1869, was clerk in a 
drug store in Brooklyn, N. Y. The two 
years following he spent in Washington, 
D. C, as apothecary in the Naval Hospital. 
Removing to Mount Vernon, N. Y., in 1871, 
he engaged in the drug business, remaining 
there a year and a half. Returning to Wash- 
ington, he was appointed to a clerkship in 
the Post-Office Department, which he held 
for three years. While there he received the 
degree of " Doctor of Pharmacy " at the 
National College of Pharmacy. In 1876 he 
engaged in the drug business in Amherst, 
Mass., where he still resides. He is an Hon- 
orary Director of the Massachusetts Masonic 
Mutual Relief Association. 

He was married September 23, 1873, at 
Waterbury, Conn., to Miss Miranda S. Mor- 



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gan. They have three children, Charles B., 
born June 30, 1874 ; Mary E., born Decem- 
ber 6, 1880, and Henry, born June 5, 1883. 

Francis Choate Bacon was born May 
7, 1850, at Gloucester, Mass., and fitted for 
college in a private school at Sharon, Mass., 
his place of residence at the time of entering 
Amherst. 

Since leaving college in the autumn of 
1867, he has been engaged in business in 
Boston. In 1-879 he was with F. Barnard, 
35 Congress Street. Since 1880 he has been 
with the firm of Webster & Co., 55 High 
Street, extensive tanners and curriers of 
leather, holding the position of confidential 
and corresponding clerk. The position is 
one of much responsibility, as the firm is in 
direct communication with all parts of the 
world, and the salary is commensurate with 
the responsibility, so that Bacon writes, 
'' financially I am doing very well." 

He was married May 26, 1875, to Mrs. 
Almeda Francis Stone (nee Miller), at 
Boston. They reside at North Cambridge. 

P. O. Address, Box 2,138, Boston, Mass. 

Alden Edward Bessey was born at 
Hebron, Me., January 1, 1838. He fitted 



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for college at Hebron Academy, and at 
the Maine Wesleyan Seminary. He was a 
member of our class during Sophomore 
and a part of Junior years. After leav- 
ing Amherst he studied medicine and re- 
ceived the degree of M.D. from the Maine 
Medical School, connected with Bowdoin 
College, in June, 1870. After practicing 
in Wayne, Me., six months, he settled in 
Sidney, Me., and has there devoted himself 
entirely to his profession. During eighteen 
years neither vacations nor sickness have 
taken him from active professional work 
more than four weeks. He expects to close 
his business in Sidney during the summer of 
1889, and, after spending a few months visit- 
iting the leading hospitals in the United 
States, resume his profession in Waterville, 
Maine. 

He married Miss Helen J. Morton, of 
Paris, Me., May 4, 1863. They had two 
children, Merton W., born October 31, 1868 ; 
and Earle E., born January 19, 1871. His 
wife died June 10, 1873. He was married 
again to Miss Clara A. Forbes, of Paris, Me., 
May 28, 1874. They have a daughter, 
Leonora, born June 11, 1876. P. O. Address, 
Centre Sidney, Me. 



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* John Randolph Brown, son of Marcus 
B. and Cynthia A. Brown, was born at 
Orient, Suffolk Co., N. Y., November 8, 1846. 
His preparation for college was made at 
Amenia, N. Y. He left Amherst at the end 
of Junior year on account of illness. He 
remained at his home on Long Island for a 
time, but growing worse went to Danville, 
N. Y., for treatment. Here he died August 
12, 1868. 

* Henry Reed Chittenden, son of Nel- 
son H, Chittenden, was born January 23, 
1842, at Genesee, Mich. He prepared for 
college at Oberlin, O., where he passed also 
the first two years of his college course. He 
entered Amherst in the autumn of 1867, and 
was a member of our class during Junior year. 
Returning to Oberlin Senior year, he gradu- 
ated there August 4, 1869. For a year he 
remained at Oberlin, studying theology, and 
then accepted the principalship of the pre- 
paratory department of Berea College, Berea, 
Ky. This position he held for six years, 
thoroughly organizing the school, which re- 
ceived pupils of both sexes and without dis- 
tinction of race. During this time he was 
also engaged to a considerable extent in 
mission and Sunday-school work among the 



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mountains of Kentucky. In July, 1876, he 
accepted the position of Superintendent of 
the Public Schools of Oberlin, O. He filled 
this office until December 5, 1878, when 
failing health compelled him to resign and 
seek the more favorable climate of California. 
He spent the winter with a brother among 
the sheep ranges of the Coast Range moun- 
tains. We last heard from him in March, 
1879, when he wrote expressing the hope 
that with the approach of the dry, warm 
season, his throat and lung trouble would be 
relieved. 

But this was not to be. We did not know 
it at our reunion in 1879, but our former 
classmate had even then gone to his rest. 
His death occurred at Cahto, Mendocino 
Co., Cal , June 24, 1879. 

He was married August 4, 1869, to Miss 
Ella C. Chamberlin, of Oberlin, O. He left 
two children, Caroline E., born August 20, 
1870, and Mary C, born March 18, 1874. 

John Bates Clark was born at Providence, 
R. I., January 26, 1847, and fitted for college 
at the High School of his native city. He 
entered the Class of 1869 at Brown University 
and remained through Sophomore year. He 
came to Amherst in 1867 and was a member 



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of our class during Junior year. In 1868 he 
accompanied his invalid father to Minnesota 
and resided in Minneapolis till September, 

1870. He entered the Class of 1871 at Am- 
herst at the beginning of Senior year, but 
remained only one term, as he was called West 
again by the more serious illness of his father. 
After his father's death, which occurred in 

1871, he returned to Amherst and graduated 
with the class of 1872. Two and a half years 
were then spent in European travel and study, 
remaining through four semesters at Heidel- 
berg, and taking a short course also at 
Zurich. In September, 1875, he accepted a 
call to Carleton College at Northfield, Minn., 
taking temporary charge of the President's 
classes and teaching Political Economy and 
History. An attack of typhoid fever that 
same autumn disabled him so completely 
that he was able to do little work for two 
years, filling a vacancy for two terms in the 
Minnesota State University. In 1877 he 
returned to Carleton College, and filled the 
professorship of Political Economy and His- 
tory there for four years. He was then 
elected to a similar professorship in Smith 
College, Northampton, Mass., a position he 
still occupies. 

A series of articles, which he published in 



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The New Englander, was afterward embodied 
with other matter in a book called " The 
Philosophy of Wealth." Another book, 
entitled "The Modern Distributive Process," 
has been issued, made up of articles which 
he published in The Political Science Quar- 
terly, in combination with articles by F. H. 
Giddings. A monograph on "Capital and 
its Earnings," and a fractional monograph on 
"Wages," are also worthy of mention. He 
has also written many smaller articles and 
detached chapters of books. 

He was married September 28, 1875, at 
Minneapolis, Minn., to Miss Myra A. Smith. 
They have three sons, Frederick Huntington, 
born April 13, 1877 ; Alden Hyde, born June 
26, 1878, and John Maurice, born November 
30, 1884. Residence, 23 Round Hill, North- 
ampton, Mass. 

Henry Adolphus Davenport was born 
in North Stamford, Conn., March 26, 1845, 
and his preparation for college was made 
at Williston Seminary, Easthampton, Mass., 
where he graduated as salutatorian of his 
class. He was a member of our class at 
Amherst during Freshman and a part of 
Sophomore years, and was then obliged to 
omit a year on account of the condition of 



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his health. During a portion of this time he 
taught at Branford, Conn. He then resumed 
his course in 1867 with the class of 1870, 
remaining until 1869. In October of that 
year he entered Union Theological Seminary, 
New York City, and continued his studies in 
that institution for four years, graduating 
May, 1873. This same year he received the 
degree of A. B. from Amherst College, He 
was ordained June 18, 1873, by the Fair- 
field West Consociation of Congregational 
Churches. From June, 1873, until February, 
1878, he resided in New York City, having 
charge of the Alexander Mission Chapel on 
Kinsj Street, connected with the Fifth Avenue 
Presbyterian Church, of which Dr. John Hall 
is pastor. Since February, 1878, he has been 
pastor of the Presbyterian Church of Bridge- 
port, Conn. This pastorate has been an emi- 
nently successful one, and the present tokens 
of prosperity are abundant. There has been 
marked growth in every direction, June 5, 
1889, an elegant and unique Sunday-School 
building, joining the church, built of stone, 
and semi-circular in form, was dedicated. 
The building cost $40,000, and for adaptation 
to its purpose is without a superior in the 
country. A new stone manse is now in con- 
templation. Your historian has been asso- 



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ciated with Davenport for eleven years in 
the Presbytery of Westchester, and can bear 
personal testimony to the extent and value 
of the work he has been permitted to do, 
and to his steadily growing power as pastor 
and preacher. 

Davenport was married September 29, 1874, 
to Miss Lizzie M. Enright, of New York City. 
Of their four children, Henry, born May 7, 
1876; William E., born October 11, 1877, 
and Maria O., born January 11, 1879, are 
living. The youngest, Lizzie C, born Octo- 
ber 16, 1881, died at the age of one month. 

Residence, 296 State Street, Bridgeport^ 
Conn. 

William Aldrich Dudley was born at 
Providence, R. I., December 7, 1847, and 
fitted for college in the High School of his 
native city. The beginning of his college 
course was spent at Brown University. In 
the fall of Junior year he entered the class of 
1869, at Amherst, but, obliged by the state of 
his health to omit a year, he graduated with 
the class of 1870. After graduation he 
engaged in the wholesale dry goods business 
in Providence, remaining there until 1886, 
when he removed to Marlboro, Mass., where 
he now resides. He is the senior member of 



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the firm of William A. Dudley & Co., pro- 
prietors of the Boston Dry Goods' Store. 

He was married November 19, 1872, to 
Miss Jennie L. Church, of Providence. 
They have six children : Charles Eaton, 
born August 30, 1873 ; Annie Josephine, born 
Feb. 6, 1875 ; William Clark, born July 12, 
1876 ; Frank Church, born August 29, 1877 ; 
Walter Wilmarth, born March 24, 1885 ; and 
Henry Augustus, born October 21, 1886. 

Jewett Castello Gilson was born at 
Rockingham, Vt., May 23, 1844, and at the 
time of entering college was a resident of 
Cambridgeport, Vt. He entered Amherst in 
1865, and was a member of our class until 
the second term of Sophomore year. Since 
leaving college he has been engaged almost 
constantly in educational work. For two 
years he was Principal of the Allegany 
Institute, at Almond, N. Y. In 1869 he went 
to California, where he has since resided, and 
has gained for himself the reputation of 
being one of the best qualified and ablest 
educators on the Pacific Coast. For eight 
years he taught in the public schools of 
Alameda County, and then was then elected 
Superintendent of Schools for that county, 
a position he filled for four years. In 



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1882 he was elected Superintendent of 
Schools for Oakland City, and held the 
office for four years. A year was spent in the 
study of medicine in San Francisco, and since 
then he has been conducting a private school 

January 9, 1888, he opened a ** Normal 
and Special Training School," in San Fran- 
cisco, and in the near future proposes to 
permanently establish, either in that city or 
in Oakland, a '' Normal Institute and School 
of Culture." He has also done a valuable 
work as Conductor of County Institutes 
^through the State. 

Gilson was married July 27, 1872, at 
Ogden, Utah, to Miss Carrie T. Greene, of 
Plainfield, N. J. They have three children, 
Ray Edson, born June 19, 1873 ; Cass Lord, 
born January 31, 1877 ; and Rosse Mozart, 
born April 6, 1883. 

Address, Hamilton Hall, Oakland, Cal. 

Don Gleason Hill was born July 12, 1847, 
at Medway, Mass., and fitted for college at 
the Wesleyan Academy, Wilbraham, Mass. 
Leaving college just before the close of 
Sophomore year, he devoted himself to pre- 
paration for the legal profession. For a 
time he worked at his trade of carpenter, 
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1868-1869 he taught in the Academy at Barre, 
Vt. Entering the law school at Albany, 
N. Y., he received the degree of LL.B. 
from that institution May 10, 1870, and 
was admitted to the bar of New York the 
following month. Returning to his native 
place, he entered, as a student, the law office 
of Charles M. Deans, Esq. Here he remained 
until June, 1871, when, removing to Dedham, 
the shire town of Norfolk County, he entered 
the office of the Hon. Waldo Colburn. He 
was admitted to the bar of Massachusetts, 
September 25, 1871, but remained in the 
same office, as assistant, until June 1875, when 
Mr. Colburn was appointed, by Governor 
Gaston, a Judge of the Superior Court. Hill 
was left in possession of his office, and 
retained a large portion of his practice. In 
October, a law partnership, under the firm 
title of Hill & Mackintosh was formed with 
Mr. Charles A. Mackintosh, which continued 
for several years, and was then dissolved. 
Hill's practice for the past ten years has been 
chiefly in real estate and probate law, extend- 
ing throughout the county. He is the attorney 
for several Savings Banks. For several years 
he has held the office of Selectman, Assessor, 
and Overseer of the Poor, and for ten years 
has been Town Clerk of the ancient town of 



122 CLASS OF i86g 



Dedham, which has just celebrated its 250th 
anniversary, both of town and church. 

Years of labor in searching old records has 
developed an antiquarian taste. He is a 
member of the New England Historic Geneo- 
logical Society of Boston, and is the President 
of the Dedham Historical Society. When 
the County Commissioners decided to 
transcribe the records in the ancient towns of 
the County, Hill was chosen to superintend 
the work. He has edited two volumes, 
which the town has published. The first 
volume was issued m 1886, and is " The 
Record of Births, Marriages and Deaths, etc., 
in Dedham." It covers the period from 1635 
to 1845. The second volume, which appeared 
in 1888, is a memorial volume, giving the 
Record of Baptisms, Marriages, Deaths, Ad- 
missions to the Churches, and Dismissions 
therefrom, transcribed from the Church 
Records in Dedham 1635 to 1845, with the 
Epitaphs in the ancient burial place. Of 
these works the N. V. Independent says : " Mr. 
Hill has done his work with that enthusiastic 
attention to details and accuracy on which 
such works depend for their value. It is a 
collection to provoke enthusiasm, one of the 
most valuable publications of its kind we 
have ever seen." 



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23 



Hill was married December 26, 1876, to 
Miss Carrie Louisa Luce, of Dedham, Mass. 
They have five children, Carrie Frances, 
born September 27, 1877 ; Helen Florence, 
born January 20, 1880 ; Don Gleason, Jr., 
born August 26, 1883 ; Maria Louisa, born 
January 11, 1885 ; and Alice Laura, born 
September 18, 1888. Mr. and Mrs. Hill are 
members of the church of which our class- 
mate Seabury is pastor. 

* Isaac Henry Hobbs, son of Charles W. 
and Lydia L. Hobbs, was born August 9, 
1849, in the town of Berwick, Me., and fitted 
for college at the South Berwick Academy. 
On account of illness he left our class at the 
beginning of Sophomore year, and never 
regained his health. He was better for a 
time and went to Exeter in order to prepare 
to resume his college course. But his health 
would not permit continued study, and he 
returned home, where he remained until his 
death, which occurred July 8, 1870. 

Henry Correll Humphrey was born at 
East Windsor, Conn., June 10, 1848, and 
prepared for college at Stamford, Conn. He 
was a member of our class during Freshman 
year. In 1866 he went to Europe and the 



124 CLASS OF i8bq 



following year returned to Amherst, where he 
remained for one year as a member of the 
class of 1870. He then entered the Sheffield 
Scientific School at New Haven, where he 
graduated in 1870, receiving the degree of 
Ph.B. After graduation, two years were 
spent in Europe, mainly at the University of 
Berlin, in the study of chemistry. In 1872 
he became connected with a sugar refinery in 
Philadelphia as chemist, and in 1874 estab- 
lished a laboratory, and continued in that 
city until 1878, when he removed to New 
York City, making his home for several years 
in Stamford. At present he is engaged in 
the real estate business, with an office at 177 
Broadway, New York City, and residing in 
Brooklyn. 

He was married in 1870 to Miss Florence 
Thurston, of Stamford, Conn. A daughter, 
Mary, was born in 1871, while they were 
residing in Europe, in the city of Dresden. 

John Boyd Johnston was born April 4, 
1848, in Hillsborough, O., and fitted for col- 
lege in the public schools of his native place. 
He entered Amherst Sophomore year, but 
remained only one term and graduated from 
Miami University, Oxford, O. , in 1868. After 
studying law for a time, he entered Lane 



AMHERST COLLEGE 125 

Theological Seminary, where he remained 
one year. The following vacation was spent 
in the real estate business in Illinois, where 
he laid out the town of Montrose, now a 
flourishing little village, on the Vandalia 
Railroad, between Indianapolis and St. Louis. 
The winter of 1871 and 1872 was spent at 
Union Theological Seminary, New York City. 
He was licensed to preach by the Presbytery 
of Chilicothe, in the spring of 1873, and 
December 26 of the same year was ordained 
and installed pastor of the Presbyterian 
churches of Hamden and McArthur, O., 
where he remained until 1875. Then for a 
time he was without charge, and was looking 
after landed interests at Montrose, 111. In 
1877 he was dismissed to the Southern Asso- 
ciation of Congregational Churches of Illi- 
nois, and after a short pastorate at Edgewood, 
February 11, 1878, he became pastor of the 
Congregational Church of Hillsborough, 111. 
While there he entered the lecture field, 
delivering a number of lectures at different 
points on "Edison and his Inventions." 
Here he remained until 1881, when, after a 
few months' residence upon his farm at Mon- 
trose, he took charge of the Congregational 
Churches at Thawville and Roberts, 111. In 
1883 he became pastor of the Storrs Congre- 



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gational Church in Cincinnati, O., where he 
remained for three years. In 1887, after 
doing City Missionary work in Cincinnati, 
he went to Mine La Motte, Mo., where he 
organized a Congregational Church. In 
April, 1888, he removed to St. Louis and 
accepted the pastorate of the Olive Branch 
Congregational Church of that city, a position 
he still holds. In 1887 he received the degree 
of M. A. from Miami University. 

Johnston was married April 22, 1872, at 
Vandalia, 111., to Miss Nancy E. Wigal. They 
have three children : John Boyd. Jr., born 
May 10, 1874 ; Anna Maria, born January 
24, 1876 ; and James William, born April 22, 
1879. - 

P. O. address, 2134 Victor Street, St. Louis, 
Mo. 

Thomas Henry McGraw was born at 
Dryden, N. Y., July 17, 1846, and prepared 
for college in his native place. He was a 
member of our class for two years, and then 
left to engage in the extensive lumber 
business of his uncle, John McGraw, of 
Ithaca, N. Y. For the first three years, from 
1867 to 1870, he was with another uncle, 
Thomas McGraw, who had charge of a branch 
of the business in Albany. Upon the death 



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111 



of this uncle, he was in 1870 placed in charge 
of the mills at Portsmouth, Mich., where he 
remained for nearly ten years, at the head of 
one of largest lumber manufacturing mills in 
the country. In 1877, after the death of his 
uncle, John McGraw, he succeeded to his 
interests in the firm, and in 1880 removed to 
Poughkeepsie, N. Y., where he still resides. 

In 1881 he received the degree of A.M. 
from Amherst, and in 1884 was made a 
Trustee of the College. 

McGraw was married, July 27, 1886, at 
Philadelphia, Pa., to Miss Pauline T. Uber- 
hurst. Of their five children, two have died, 
Louis J., born July 2, 1880, died October 18, 
1880 ; and Pauline F., born October 10, 1882, 
died June 22, 1888. Three are living, Thomas 
H. Jr., born September 18, 1877 ; Frank U., 
born February 8, 1879 ; and Grace, born 
June 16, 1887. 

* Lewis Meacham, son of the Rev. James 
and Mrs. Mary F. Meacham, was born at 
New Haven, Vt., March 8, 1846. His 
preparations for college was begun at Farm- 
ington, Conn., where he remained one year, 
and completed at Phillips Academy, Andover, 
Mass. He was a member of our class during 
a part of Junior year. After leaving Amherst, 



128 CLASS OF il 



he was tutor for a few months in Christian 
College, Indiana. But his inclination leading 
him strongly to journalism, he went to 
Chicago, where he obtained a position upon 
the Tribune, which he filled until after the 
great fire. He was then appointed by Mayor 
Medill as private secretary. In 1874, he 
returned to Vermont, and became local editor 
of the Rutla7id Herald, but the following year 
went again to Chicago, to accept a position 
upon the editorial staff of the Tribune. This 
position he occupied until his death, October 
2, 1878. While his death was sudden, it was 
not unexpected, as he had long suffered from 
a wound received in the army, and from ill 
health contracted during the war. While 
busy at work one morning he was taken sick, 
and suffered intensely until the next morning, 
when he died. 

* Joseph Chapman Blanchard Miller, 
son of Dr. Seth P. and Mrs. Elizabeth C. B. 
Miller, was born at Worcester, Mass., March 
11, 1848. His preparatory studies were 
pursued at the Worcester High School, and 
he entered Amherst College, September, 
1865. 

Attacked with typhoid fever near the close 
of the first term of Sophomore year, he died 



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after an illness of three weeks at his home in 
Worcester, December 11, 1866. A scholarship 
fund of $1,000 was established in memory of 
our lamented classmate by his mother. 

* Henry Tyler Morse was born at West- 
minster, Vt., April 5, 1844. After attending 
school at the academies in Westminster and 
Saxton's River, Vt., and in Bernardston, Mass., 
he completed his preparatory course at the 
Kimball Union Academy, Meriden, N. H. 
Entering Amherst in 1866, he was a member 
of our class until the end of the first term of 
Junior year, when failing health compelled 
him to leave college. For a time he filled the 
office of Superintendent of Schools in his 
native town, but in 1869 resigned and went 
to Minnesota for his health. He remained a 
year, returning home July 11, 1870. It was 
now evident that consumption was doing its 
fatal work and from this time he failed 
rapidly until his death, which occurred Sep- 
tember 18, 1870. 

George Albert Pike was born in New- 
buryport, Mass., August 34, 1848, and pre- 
pared for college at the Newburyport High 
School. His name was enrolled as a member 
of our class in the fall of 1865, but he was 



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CLASS OF li 



with us but a very short time. He is a 
physician, and resides at Bristol, R. I. 

* George Washington Seaver, son of 
Joseph and Abigail Eveline (Parker) Seaver, 
was born at Pomfret, Vt., June 1, 1846, and 
fitted for college at the Kimball Union Acad- 
emy, Meriden, N. H. He was a member of 
our class during Freshman year, and was 
then compelled by a disease of the eyes to 
leave college for a time. During his absence 
he taught school at Cavendish, Vt., and at 
Chester, Mass. Returning to college in 1867 
he graduated with the class of 1870. After 
graduation he became an agent for a publish- 
ing house in New York City. In its employ 
he sailed for Galveston, Tex., in the steamer 
"Varuna," which foundered at sea off the 
coast of Florida, on the night of the 20th of 
October, 1870, and he was among the lost. 

* William Campbell Stokes, son of Jor- 
dan Stokes, was born at Lebanon, Tenn., 
May 16, 1847. He entered Amherst in 1863 
with the class of 1867, and after absence on 
account of ill health, resumed his college 
course with our class during Sophomore 
year, remaining only two terms. He died 
February 2, 1869. 



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131 



Henry Pitt Warren was born at Wind- 
ham, Me., March 20, 1846, and fitted for col- 
lege at Gorham Academy, Me., and at Phillips 
Academy, Andover, Mass. Leaving college 
at the end of Freshman year, he went to 
Yale, where he graduated June, 1870. After 
graduation, he was master of a grammar 
school in New Bedford, Mass., until January^ 
1872, when he became prineipal of the High 
School of Dover, N. H., filling that position 
until July, 1875. In the fall of that year he 
began the study of theology, at Bangor Semi- 
nary, as a special student. His health failing, 
he went South, where he remained until the 
summer of 1877. Returning to Dover, he 
was made superintendent of schools there, 
which position he occupied until he resigned, 
in February, 1879, to accept the principalship 
of the State Normal School at Plymouth, 
N. H. In 1883 he was elected English Mas- 
ter in the Lawrenceville School, Lawrence- 
ville, N. J. After filling this position for 
three years he was called in 1886 to the Head 
Mastership of the Albany Academy, Albany, 
N. Y. He writes that his health is re-estab- 
lished and that he is heartily enjoying his 
work. 

Warren was married in August, 1879, to 
Miss Annie L. Lyman, of Exeter, N. H. They 



132 CLASS OF i$6q 



have three children, Constance, born Novem- 
ber 5, 1880 ; William, born August 18, 1882 ; 
and Dorothy L., born January 29, 1888. 
P. O. address, Albany, N. Y. 

LuciAN Ethalston Wells was born at 
Athens, Vt., July 28, 1844, and fitted for 
college at Leland and Grey Seminary, Towns- 
hend, Vt. He was a member of our class 
during Freshman year. In 1873 he received 
the degree of A.M. from Amherst College- 
After leaving college he studied medicine, 
received the degree of M.D., and practiced 
his profession in Michigan and Rhode Island. 
His last address, so far as can be ascertained, 
was Brattleboro, Vt. It has been impossible 
to learn anything farther about him. He was 
married, January 2, 1881, to Miss Mary F. 
Webb, of Charlotte, Vt. For these facts we 
are indebted to the '* Biographical Record of 
the Alumni and Non-Graduates of Amherst 
College," edited by Prof. Montague, and 
published in 1883. 

Harry Williams was born at Lebanon, O. 
June 12, 1846, and fitted for college ai 
Hamilton, O., his place of residence at the 
time he entered Amherst. After leaving 
college at the end of Sophomore year, he spent 



AMHERST COLLEGE 133 

one year in the Internal Revenue Collector's 
office at Charleston, W. Va. In ;july, 1868, 
he removed to Toledo, O., and engaged in 
the manufacture of chairs, a business which 
he still prosecutes under the firm name of 
Williams & Co., proprietors of the Toledo 
Chair Factory. But let him speak for 
himself : " I am still in Toledo, still making 
chairs, in which occupation I have been 
modestly successful, still warm in my affection 
for the boys, and still, at the mature age of 
forty-three, a forlorn and disconsolate old 
bachelor ; and I have little doubt that when 
the grim reaper finally fastens his grip upon 
me, I shall be found in this same unhappy 
condition." 

P.O. address, 342 Huron Street, Toledo, O. 

Wallace Winot Williamson was born 
December 5, 1845, at Malone, N. Y., and 
prepared for college in his native place. He 
entered Amherst in 1865, and was a member 
of our class until Junior year. After leaving 
college he studied dentistry in Malone, and 
subsequently practiced with Dr. Nichols, at 
Potsdam, N. Y. In 1872 he removed to 
Oswego, N. Y., where he soon built up a large 
practice. In the autumn of 1878 he attended 
lectures at the Pennsylvania Dental College 



134 CLASS OF li 



in Philadelphia. In 1880 he went to Syracuse, 
N. Y., desiring to establish himself in a larger 
city. Two years ago he attended the Tooth 
Crown College in New York City, which 
makes a specialty of crown and bridge work. 
The introduction of this branch of dentistry 
into his practice has more than doubled his 
business, rendering it first-class in every 
respect. He contemplates spending a three 
months' vacation in Europe the coming 
summer. 

But in all his practice he has never yet 
pulled a tooth for his wife. Williamson is a 
bachelor. 

P. O. address, Syracuse, N. Y. 



SUMMARY OF STATISTICS. 



PRESENT ADDRESSES. 



GRADUATES. 



C. H. Allen, 411 Middlesex St., Lowell, Mass. 

Dr. W. O. Ballantine, Rahuri, Western India. 

W. M. Benedict, 219 Montague St., Brooklyn, 
N. Y. 

Prof. E. A. Benner, Salt Lake City, Utah. 

Dr. J. H. Bogart, Roslyn, L. L 

Prof. C. F. Boyden, Taunton, Mass. 

W. R. Brown, 146 Broadway, N. Y. City. 

Prof. J. K. Chickering, Burlington, Vt. 

Rev. J, H. Childs, Northbridge, Mass. 

Rev. H. J. Cook, Dayton, O. 

Rev. E. W. Donald, 12 West Eleventh St., N. Y. 
City. 

C. F. Eastman, Easton, Md. 

Rev. J. H. Eastman, Katonah, N. Y. 

H. K. Field, 324 Montgomery St., San Francisco, 
Cal. 

G. M. Gage, Box 491, Salt Lake City, Utah. 

R. Goodman, jun., Lenox, Mass. 

Dr. W. P. Hammond, 47 Monument Square, 
Charlestown, Mass. 

Rev. M. O. Harrington, Russell, Kan., or 932 
Spruce St., Topeka, Kan. 



136 CLASS OF iSbg 



Prof. W. T. Hewett, Cornell University, Ithaca, 
N. Y. 
W. R. Hobbie, Greenwich, N. Y. 
Rev. W. J. Holland, Pittsburgh, Penn. 
Dr. C. L. Howes, Hanover, Mass. 
Rev. W. A. Keese, Lawrence, Mass. 
J. E. Kellogg, Fitchburg, Mass. 
S. H. Lamed, Phillipsburg, N. J. 
F. D. Lewis, 411 Walnut St., Philadelphia, Penn. 
Rev. Geo. McCormick, Salinas City, Cal. 
James McNeill, Hudson, N. Y. 
H. M. Matthews, 1109 Tacoma Building, Chicago, 

in. 

Rev. M. W. Montgomery, Minneapolis, Minn. 

Rev. C. S. Newhall, Point Pleasant, N. J. 

J. A. Page, Haverhill, Mass. 

C. R. Pratt, Elmira, N. Y. 

A. B. Putnam, 31 Bowdoin St., Boston, Mass. 

Rev. J. W. Quinby, East Bridgewater, Mass. 

Prof. H. B. Richardson, Amherst, Mass. 

Prof. J. K. Richardson, Wellesley Hills, Mass. 

Rev. W. R. Scarritt, Marshalltown, Iowa. 

Rev. J. B. Seabury, Dedham, Mass, 

Prof. S. T. Skidmore, 1706 North Eighteenth St., 
Philadelphia, Pa. 

W. S. Slocum, 257 Washington St., Boston, Mass. 

Prof. H. P. Smith, Lane Theol. Sem., Cincinnati, 
O. 

Winthrop Smith, 324 Chestnut St., Philadelphia, 
Pa. 

Rev. E. C. Stickel, Fisk University, Nashville 
Tenn. 

Prof. F. H. Stoddard, University of the City of 
New York, N. Y. City. 



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137 



Rev. A. F. Tenney, 262 Henry St., Brooklyn, N. Y. 
D. G. Thompson, 35 Wall St., N. Y. City. 
Rev. A. E. Tracy, Ontario, California. 
Rev. E. H. Votaw, Geneva, O. 
Rev. R. M. Woods, Hatfield, Mass. 



NON-GRADUATES. 

Henry Adams, Amherst, Mass. 

F. C. Bacon, P. O. Box 2138, Boston, Mass. 

Dr. A. E. Bessey, Center Sidney, Me. 

Prof. J. B. Clark, Smith College, Northampton, 
Mass. 

Rev. H. A. Davenport, Bridgeport, Conn. 

W. A. Dudley, Marlborough, Mass. 

Prof. J. C. Gilson, Hamilton Hall, Oakland, Cal, 

H. C. Humphrey, 177 Broadway, N. Y. City. 

D. G. Hill, Dedham, Mass. 

Rev. J. B. Johnston, 2134 Victor St., St. Louis, 
Mo. 

T. H. McGraw, Poughkeepsie, N. Y. 

Prof. H. P. Warren, Albany Academy, Albany, 
N. Y. 

Dr. L. E. Wells. 

H. Williams, 342 Huron St., Toledo, O. 

Dr. W. W. Williamson, Syracuse, N. Y. 



MARRIAGES. 
GRADUATES. 

M. W. Montgomery, to Miss Mary R. Votaw, at 
Pennville, Ind., July 20th, 1859. 



138 CLASS OF fS6g 



E. H. Votaw, to Miss Hattie A. Webber, at Liber, 
Ind., September 1st, 1859. 

H. B. Richardson, to Miss Mary E. Lincoln, of 
Amherst, Mass.. July 13th, 1869. 

J, K. Richardson, to Miss Louisa C. Shepard, 
of Woburn, Mass., August 18th, 1869. 

H. J. Cook, to Miss Matilda C. Metcalfe, at 
Geneva, N. Y., August 23d, 1870. 

A. B. Kittredge, to Miss Alice W. Gordon, of 
Auburndale, Mass., October 3d, 1870. 

C. H. Allen, to Miss Harriet C. Dean, of Man- 
chester, N. H., November 10th, 1870. 

J. H. Childs, to Miss M. Jennie Bailey, of Nece- 
dah, Wis., January 5th, 1871. 

W. Smith, to Miss M. Florence Chapman, at 
Arlington, Mass., November 29th, 1871. 

George McCormick, to Miss Annie E. Ferguson, 
at Spring Run, Penn., April 18th, 1872, 

W. R. Brown, to Miss Nellie W. Babcock, at 
Brooklyn, N. Y., May 7th. 1872. 

A. E. Tracy, to Miss Kate S. Harwood, of Spring- 
field, Mo., at Bennington, Vt., July 2d, 1872. 

S. H. Earned, to Miss Hattie N. Boltwood, Of 
Amherst, Mass., July 20th, 1872. 

H. K. Field, to Miss Kate L. Daniels, of Hart- 
ford, Conn., at Brattleboro, Vt., November 25th, 
1872. 

A. B. Putnam, to Miss Fannie Farnsworth, at 
Groton, Mass., January 4th, 1873. 

F. H. Stoddard, to Miss Lucy M. Smith, of Spring- 
field, Mass., May 14th, 1873. 

A. B. Emmons, to Miss Melva S. Topping, at 
Chester, N. J., May 28th, 1873. 

J. K. Chickering, to Miss Mary E. Conner, at 
Exeter, N. H., September 9th, 1873. 



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139 



W. p. Hammond, to Miss Sarah A. Harrub, Sep- 
tember 17th, 1873. 

W. S. Slocum, to Miss Annie A. Pulsifer, of 
Newtonville, Mass., October 7th, 1873. 

E. C. Stickel, to Miss Luretta R. Chamberlin, at 
Oberlin, O., August 2d, 1874. 

E. A. Benner, to Miss Mary S. Carter, of Lowell, 
Mass., August 31st, 1874. 

J. B. Seabury, to Miss Martha D.Mason, of And- 
over, Mass., September 30th, 1874. 

W. O. Ballantine, to Miss Alice Gary Parsons, at 
Easthampton, Mass., January 6th, 1875. 

R. A. Fuller, to Miss Flora L. Booth, at West- 
field, Wis., October 15th, 1875. 

S. H. Earned, to Miss Susie Maria Everett, of 
Worcester, Mass., January 5th, 1876. 

W. A. Keese, to Miss Elizabeth E. Hodge, of E. 
Charlotte, Vt., February 15th, 1876. 

E. W. Donald, to Miss Cornelia Clapp, of Wash- 
ington Heights, N. Y. City, April 35th, 1876. 

C. F. Boyden, to Miss Isabella H. Anthony, of 
Taunton, Mass., July 4th, 1876. 

C. F. Eastman, to Miss Laura M. Buck, of 
Wilmington, Del., July 12th, 1876. 

A. F. Tenney, to Miss Elizabeth R. Wallace, of 
Philadelphia, Pa., August 16th, 1876. 

W. R. Scarritt, to Miss Lizzie B. Mariner, of 
Olathe, Kan., June 5th, 1877. 

M. O. Harrington, to Miss Mary E. Smith, at 
Sunderland, Mass., September 28th, 1877. 

H. P. Smith, to Miss Anna Macneale, of Cincin- 
nati, O., December 27th, 1877. 

S. T. Skidmore, to Miss Mary E. Humphrey, of 
Providence, R. L, December 30th, 1877. 



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C. L. Howes, to Miss Mary O. Hapgood, at 

Worcester, Mass., October 3d, 1878. 

W. M. Benedict, to Miss Grace Dillingham, of 
Brooklyn, N. Y., October 10th, 1878. 

W. J. Holland, to Miss Carrie T. Moorhead, of 
Pittsburgh, Pa., January 23d, 1879. 

C. R. Pratt, to Miss Jane E. Carrier, of Cuba, N. 
Y., April 10th, 1879. 

J. H. Eastman, to Miss Lucy King, of Bingham- 
ton, N. Y., June 11th, 1879. 

R. M. Woods, to Miss Anna Fairbank, at Haver- 
hill, Mass., October 29th, 1879. 

W, R. Hobbie, to Miss Phoebe Walsh, of Green- 
wich, N. Y., June 2d, 1880. 

W. T. Hewett, to Miss Emma PvIcChain, of Ithaca, 
N. Y., June 22d, 1880. 

D. G. Thompson, to Miss Henrietta Gallup, at 
Brooklyn, N. Y., March 31st, 1881. 

C. S. Newhall, to Miss Kitty Harvey, of Oceanic, 
N. J., March 7th, 1881. 

G. M. Gage, to Miss Sarah E. Valentine, at 
Chicago, 111., July 17th, 1881. 

J. H. Bogart, to Miss Ethelena T. Albertson, of 
Mineola, L. I., February 21st, 1884. 

J. H. Childs, to Miss Susie P. Blake, at Newbury- 
port, Mass., July 2d, 1885. 

W. O. Ballantine, to Miss Josephine Louise Per- 
kins, of Fitchburg, Mass., August 2Gth, 1885. 

S. T. Skidmore, to Miss Sadie D. Atkinson, at 
Philadelphia, Pa., September 10th, 1885. 

J. A. Page, to Miss Annie D. Webb, of Bradford, 
Mass, September 15th, 1886. 

F. D. Lewis, to Miss Mary H. Chandler, of Ger- 
mantown, Pa., April 28th, 1887. Married— 48. 



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141 



NON-GRADUATES. 

A. E. Bessey, to Miss Helen J. Morton, at Paris, 
Me., May 4th, 1863. 

H. R. Chittenden, to Miss Ella C. Chamberlin, 
at Oberlin, O., August 4th, 1869. 

H. C. Humphrey, to Miss Florence Thurston, of 
Stamford, Conn., in 1870. 

L. E. Wells, to Miss Mary F. Webb, of Charlotte, 
Vt., January 2d, 1871. 

J. B. Johnston, to Miss Nancy E. Wigal, at Van- 
dalia, 111., April 22d, 1872. 

J. C. Gilson, at Ogden, Utah, to Miss Carrie T. 
Greene, of Plainfield, N. J., July 27th, 1872. 

W. A. Dudley, to Miss Jennie L. Church, at 
Providence, R. I., November 19th, 1872. 

H. Adams, to Miss Miranda S. Morgan, at Water- 
ford, Conn., September 23d, 1873. 

A. E. Bessey, to Miss Clara A. Forbes, at Paris, 
Me., May 28th, 1874. 

H. A. Davenport, to Miss Lizzie M. Enright, at 
New York City, September 29th, 1874. 

F. C. Bacon, to Mrs. Almeda F. Stone, at Boston, 
Mass., May 26th, 1875. 

J. B. Clark, to Miss Myra A. Smith, at Minne- 
apolis, Minn., September 25th, 1875. 

T. H. McGraw, to Miss Pauline F. Uberhurst, at 
Philadelphia, July 27th, 1876. 

D. G. Hill, to Miss Clara Louisa Luce, of Ded- 
ham, Mass., December 26th, 1876. 

H. P. Warren, to Miss Annie L, L. Lyman, of 
Exeter, N. H., August, 1879. Married— 14. 



142 CLASS OF i86g 



CHILDREN. 



OF GRADUATES. 

Mary Theresa Votaw, August 18th, 1861. 
Emma B. Montgomery, October 19th, 1862. 
Clyde Webber Votaw, February 6th, 1864. 
Plymouth G. Montgomery, March 15th, 1866. 
Martha Eucola Votaw, June 8th, 1866. 
Eldon Merriam Votaw, October 16th, 1868. 
Mary Lincoln Richardson. February 17th, 1871. 
Myrtle Enida Votaw, July 25th, 1871. 
*Rufus Childs, September 19th, 1871. 
Bertha Allen, April 2d, 1872. 

Whitman M. Montgomery, September 8th, 1872. 
Warren Day Brown, February 5th, 1873. 
*Mary Blythe McCormick, February 7th, 1873. 
Winthrop Brentwood Smith, March 29th, 1873. 

* Lamed (son), May, 1873. 

*Bertha Tracy, July 10th, 1873. 

Charles Kellogg Field, September 18th, 1873. 

*Cleveland Hall Brown, June 11th, 1874. 

Mary Forrester Emmons, June 16th, 1874. 

Bessie P. Hammond, July 9th, 1874. 

Carrie Anna Richardson, July 6th, 1874. 

Lucy Stoddard, August 15th, 1874. 

Forest H. Montgomery, August 22d, 1874. 

^Frederick Pulsifer Slocum, October 25th, 1874. 

Harriet Lyravine Votaw, December 28th, 1874. 

Martin Field, February 3d, 1875. 

Edward Conner Chickering, February 19th, 1875. 

Louise Allen, February 25th, 1875. 

Edward Chapman Smith, May 15th, 1875. 

Caroline Frances Benner, May 26th, 1875. 



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143 



*Helena Mason Seabury, February 29th, 1876. 
Irving Hobart Childs, April 21st, 1876. 
Lois Eliza Fuller, September 14th, 1876. 
*Barteau Sargent Smith, September 19th, 1876. 
Edith Matilda Cook, November 27th, 1876. 
*Alice Donald, April 5th, 1877. 
Burnham Carter Benner, May 6th, 1877. 
Henry Willard Field, May 18th, 1877. 
Alma Luretta Stickel, August 15th, 1877. 
Donald Winchester Brown, September 9th, 1877. 
Warren Bartlett Seabury, September 17th, 1877. 
*Floy Bradford Emmons, November 4th, 1877. 
Harold Smith, December 29th, 1877. 
Annie Elizabeth McCormick, May 5th, 1878. 
Ira Edwards Tracy, June 6th, 1878. 
William R Scarritt, jr., June 23d, 1878. 
Edward Hopkins Benner, July 12th, 1878. 
Albert F. Tenney, July 15th, 1878. 
Francis Buck Eastman, August 27th, 1878. 
*Francis Winchester Donald, February 17th, 1879. 
Winifred Smith, April 4th, 1879. 
Emaline Ruth Votaw, April 19th, 1879. 
Agnes Elizabeth Slocum, June 6th, 1879. 
Theodora Lyon Cook, July 27th, 1879. 
Melissa M. Benedict, August 17th, 1879. 
Frederic Hapgood Howes, August 29th, 1879. 
Esther Cramer Emmons, September 5th, 1879. 
Mary Huse Eastman, October 24th, 1879. 
*Hermon Batterson Smith, October 26th, 1879. 
Joseph Stowe Seabury, November 28th, 1879. 
Russel Bunce Field, March 24th, 1880. 
Ransom Pratt, April 16th, 1880. 
J. Richmond Childs, July 5th, 1880. 
Laura Wallace Tenney, July 5th, 1880. 



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Preserved Smith, July 22d, 1880. 

Elizabeth Eastman, August 7th, 1880. 

Louise Alberta Fuller Scarritt, August 17th, 1880. 

*Mary Elizabeth Harrington, August 27th, 1880. 

Agnes Donald, September 6th, 1880. 

Henry Stephens Richardson, January 17th, 1881. 

*John Moorhead Holland, February 11th, 1881. 

*Charles Francis Eastman, February 17th, 1881. 

Marion Ashton Keese, May 2d, 1881. 

Susan D. Benedict, May 5th, 1881. 

Moses Stone Emmons, June 19th, 1881. 

Phoebe Elizabeth Hobbie, July 12th, 1881. 

Addie Eliza Tracy, July 21st, 1881. 

Alvord Pratt, November 8th, 1881. 

Graeme Donald, January 27th, 1883. 

Charles A. Newhall, March 6th, 1882. 

Joseph Bartlett Eastman, June 26th, 1882. 

Josiah Bridges Woods, October 16th, 1882. 

Ethel Margaret Keese, October 25th, 1882. 

Neale Macneale Smith, February 28th, 1883. 

Charles Francis Eastman, March 26th, 1883. 

Caroline Bradford Howes, July 8th, 1883. 

William Murray Harrington, October 23d, 1883. 

Harwood Tracy, November 22d, 1883. 

Alan Fairbank Woods, February 3, 1884. 

Luther Newhall, February 9th, 1884. 

Ruth Esther Keese, February 18th, 1884. 

Mary Katharine Benner, February 20th, 1884. 

Edward Walsh Hobbie, March 15th, 1884. 

Margaret Earned, June 28th, 1884. 

Moorhead Benezet Holland, September 3d, 1884. 

Mason Hovey Seabury, September 30th, 1884. 

Enid Mariner Scarritt, November 28th, 1884. 

Jennie Bogart, January 23d, 1885. 



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145 



Lewis Bush Eastman, January 31st, 1885, 

Allen Benner, March 17th, 1885. 

*Donald Mayo Smith, September 5th, 1885. 

Charles Pulsifer Slocum, September 15th, 1885. 

Katharine Woods, October 29th, 1885. 

Francis Raymond Holland, January 10th, 1886. 

Sarah Pratt, February 18th, 1886. 

Annie Nellie Harrington, February 24th, 1886. 

Mortimer Ashmead Seabury, July 26th, 1886. 

*Alan Stuart Donald, September 24th, 1886. 

Katherine Newhall, Oetober 5th. 1886. 

Louise Binney Skidmore, October 10th, 1886. 

*John Huse Eastman, February 16th, 1887. 

Charlotte Woods, July 8th, 1887. 

*Helen Larned, September 2d, 1887. 

Allan Daniels Fields, October 21st, 1887. 

Alice Childs, May 20th, 1888. 

Ethelena Bogart, June 8th, 1888. 

Joseph William Ballantine, July 80th, 1888. 

Mary Chandler Lewis, August 11th, 1888. 

Marian Hobbie, August 23d, 1888. 

Arthur Bartlett Eastman, August 30th, 1888. 

Margaret Woods, March 18th, 1889. 

Total, 121. Boys, 64. Girls, 57. 



OF NON-GRADUATES. 

Merton W. Bessey, October 13th, 1868. 
Caroline E. Chittenden, August 20th, 1870. 
Earle E. Bessey, January 19th, 1871. 
May Humphrey, 1871. 
Ray Edson Gilson, June 19th, 1873. 
Charles Eaton Dudley, August 30th, 1873. 
Mary C. Chittenden, March 18th, 1874. 



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John Boyd Johnston, May 10th, 1874. 
Charles B. Adams, June 30th, 1874. 
Annie Josephine Dudley, February 6th, 1875. 
Anna Maria Johnston, January 24th, 1876. 
Lenora Bessey, June 11th, 1876. 
William Clark Dudley, July 12th, 1876. 
Henry Davenport, May 17th, 1876. 
Cass Lord Gilson, January 31st, 1877. 
Frederick Huntington Clark, April 13th, 1877. 
Frank Church Dudley, August 29th, 1877. 
Thomas H. McGraw, jr., September 18th, 1877. 
Carrie Frances Hill, September 27th, 1877. 
William E. Davenport, October 11th, 1877. 
Alden Hyde Clark, June 26th, 1878. 
Maria O. Davenport, January 11th, 1879. 
Frank U. McGraw, February 8th, 1879. 
James Williams Johnston, April 22d, 1879. 
Helen Florence Hill, January 20th, 1880. 
*Louis J. McGraw, July 2d, 1880. 
Constance Warren, November 5th, 1880. 
Mary E. Adams, December 6th, 1880. 
*Lizzie C. Davenport, October 16th, 1881. 
William Warren, August 18th, 1882. 
*Pauline F. McGraw, October 10th, 1882. 
Rosse Mozart Gilson, April 6th, 1883. 
Henry Adams, June 5th, 1883. 
Don Gleason Hill, jr., August 26th, 1883. 
John Maurice Clark, November 30th, 1884. 
Maria Louisa Hill, January 11th, 1885. 
Walter Wilmanh Dudley, March 24th, 1885. 
Henry Augustus Dudley, October 21st, 1886. 
Grace McGraw, June 16th, 1887. 
Dorothy L. Warren, January 29th, 1888. 
Alice Laura Hill, September 16th, 1888. 
Total, 41. Boys, 24. Girls, 17. 



AMHERST COLLEGE 147 



PROFESSIONS AND OCCUPATIONS. 



GRADUATES. 

iJ/mw/rj/.— Ballantine, (Cong. Medical Mission- 
ary) ; Childs, (Cong) ; Cook, (Prot. Epis.) ; Donald, 
(Prot. Epis.) ; J. H. Eastman, (Presb.) ; Harrington, 
(Cong.) ; Holland, (Presb.) ; Keese, (Cong.) ; Mc- 
Cormick, (United Presb.) ; Montgomery, (Cong.) ; 
Newhall, (Presb.); Quinby, (Unit.); Scarritt, 
(Cong.); Seabury, (Cong.); H. P Smith, (Presb. 
Prof, in Theo. Sem.) ; Stickel, (Cong.); Tenney, 
(Prot. Epis.) ; Tracy, (Cong.) ; Votaw, (Cong.) ; 
Woods, (Cong.). 20. 

Z^w.— Benedict, Lewis, Matthews, Page, Pratt, 
Slocum, Thompson. 7. 
Medicine. — Bogart, Hammond, Howes. 3. 
Journalism. — Kellogg. 1. 

Teaching. — Benner, Boyden, Chickering, Hewett 
H. B. Richardson, J. K. Richardson, Skidmore, 
Stoddard. 8. 

Business. — Allen, (lumber manufacturer) ; Brown, 
(real estate) ; Field, (life insurance) ; Gage, (real 
estate) ; Hobbie. (paper manufacturer) ; Earned 
(silk manufacturer) ; Putnam, (wire manufacturer) ; 
\V. Smith, (banking). 8. 
Agriculture. — C. F. Eastman ; Goodman. 2. 
Phrenologist. — McNeill. 1. 



NON-GRADUATES. 

Ministry.— Ti2.v&Xi^^ox\, (Presb,); Johnston, (Cong.). 
3. 
Z«w.— Hill. 1. 



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Medicine. — Bessey ; Wells. 2. 

Dentistry. — Williamson. 1. 

Teaching. — Clark ; Gilson ; Warren. 3. 

Business. — Adams, (druggist) ; Bacon, (confi- 
dential clerk) ; Dudley, (dry goods) ; Humphrey, 
(real estate) ; McGraw, (lumber) ; Williams, (chair 
manufacturer). 6. 



OBITUARY LIST. 



GRADUATES. 

Alvah B. Kittredge, from pulmonary consumption, 
at Westborough, Mass., October 4th, 1870, aged 25. 

Julius Sanderson, from consumption, at Phillips- 
ton, Mass., June 3d, 1877, aged 30. 

Roselle A. Fuller, from consumption, at El Paso, 
Colorado, March 20th, 1880, aged 36. 

Edward A. Adams, killed by a patient at Kalama- 
zoo, Mich., January 7th, 1882, aged 33. 

William H. Warn, from consumption, at Denver, 
Col., January 7th, 1882, aged 36. 

Amzi B. Emmons, from congestion of the lungs, 
at Morristown, N. J., January 18th, 1882, aged 35. 



NON-GRADUATES. 

Joseph C. B. Miller, from typhoid fever, at his 
home in Worcester, Mass., December 11th, 1866, 
aged 18. 

John R. Brown, at Danville, N. Y., August 12th, 
1868, aged 22. 



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William C. Stokes, February 2d, 1869, aged 21. 

Isaac H. Hobbs, at So. Berwick, Me., July 8th, 
1870, in his 21st year. 

Henry T. Morse, from consumption, at Westmin- 
ister, Vt., September 18th, 1870, aged 26. 

Lewis Meacham, from biliary colic, at Chicago, 
III., October 2d, 1878, aged 32. 

Henry R. Chittenden, from consumption, at Cahto, 
California, June 24th, 1879, aged 37. 



WIVES OF GRADUATES. 

Mrs. Anna Spencer Stickel, at Selma, Ala., in 
1871. 

Mrs. Hattie Boltwood Larned, at Worcester, 
Mass., May 27th, 1873. 

Mrs. Mary Conner Chickering, at Exeter, N. H., 
March 12th, 1875. 

Mrs. Alice Parsons Ballantine, in India, Septem- 
ber 9th, 1878. 

Mrs. Mary Humphrey Skidmore, at Philadelphia, 
Pa., November 2od. 1878. 

Mrs. Jennie Bailey Childs, at Wenham, Mass., 
June 27th, 1882. 

Mrs. Emma McChain Hewett, at Ithaca, N. Y., 
September 18th, 1883. 

Mrs. Fannie Farnsworth Putnam, at Boston, 
Mass., in 1887. 

Mrs. Elizabeth Wallace Tenney, at Madison, N. 
J., March 31st, 1888. 



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WIVES OF NON-GRADUATES. 

Mrs. Helen Morton Bessey, at Centre Sidney 
Me., June 10th, 1873. 



CHILDREN OF GRADUATES. 

Rufus Childs, 1871. 

Lamed, May, 1873. 

Frederick Pulsifer Slocum, November 5th, 1874. 
Bertha Tracy, November 2d, 1874. 
Mary Blythe McCormick, December 31st, 1876. 
Helena Mason Seabury, August 15th, 1878. 
Francis Winchester Donald, October 22d, 1879. 
Hermon Batterson Smith, December 12th, 1879. 
John Moorhead Holland, February 22d, 1881. 
Charles Francis Eastman, August 27th, 1881. 
Alice Donald, June 17th, 1882. 
Mary Elizabeth Harrington, May 19th, 1883. 
Floy Bradford Emmons, May 2Gth, 1883. 
Donald Mayo Smith, March 14th, 1886. 
Barteau Sargent Smith, September 25th, 1886. 
Alan Stuart Donald, November 29th, 1886. 
Cleveland Hall Brown, December 8th, 1886. 
John Huse Eastman, August 8th, 1887. 
Helen Lamed, August 9th. 1888. 



CHILDREN OF NON-GRADUATES. 

Louis J. McGraw, October 18th, 1880. 
Lizzie C. Davenport, November, 1881. 
Pauline F. McGraw, June 22d. 1888. 



AMHERST COLLEGE 151 

CLASS RE-UNIONS. 

L— Thursday evening, July 13th, 1871, at Hayne's 
Hotel, Springfield, Mass. Thirty-one of the class 
were present. This took the place of a triennial 
meeting, in view of the celebration that year of the 
semi-centennial of the college. 

n.— Wednesday evening, July 8th, 1874, at the 
Round Hill Hotel, Northampton, Mass. Seventeen 
of the class were present, viz. ; Adams, Ballantine, 
Brown, Chickering, Childs, Cook, Donald, C. F. 
Eastman, J. H. Eastman, Gage, Hobbie, Kellogg, 
Larned, Lewis, H. B. Richardson, Skidmore and 
Stoddard. At this meeting the class-cup was pre- 
sented to Warren Day Brown. 

III._Wednesday evening July 2d, 1879, at the 
Amherst House, Amherst, Mass. Twenty-three of 
the class were present, viz.: E. A. Adams, H. 
Adams, Allen, Bogart, Brown, Chickering, Donald, 
J. H. Eastman, Emmons, Goodman, Hammond, 
Hewett, Kellogg, Larned, Lewis, Page, H. B. Rich- 
ardson, J. K. Richardson, Seabury, Skidmore, 
Slocum, Tracy, and Woods. 

IV.— Wednesday evening, July 2d, 1884, at the 
Amherst House, Amherst Mass. Twenty-two of the 
class were present, viz.: H. Adams, Allen, Bacon, 
Ballantine, Brown, Chickering, Childs, Donald, J. 
H. Eastman, Hammond, Humphrey, Keese, Kel- 
logg, Lewis, H. B. Richardson, J. K. Richardson, 
Skidmore, Slocum, H. P. Smith, Stoddard, Tenney 
and Woods. 

v.— Wednesday evening, July 3d, 1889, at Am- 
herst, Mass. Seventeen of the class were present. 



152 CLASS OF i86q 



viz. : H. Adams, Bogart, Chickering, Clark, Cook, 
Donald, J. H. Eastman, Hewett, Howes, Kellogg, 
Larned, Lewis, H, B. Richardson, J. K. Richard- 
son, Seabury, Skidmore, and Woods. F. D. Lewis 
was re-elected President, W. R. Brown, Secretary 
and Treasurer, and H. B. Richardson, R. M. Woods 
and J. K. Chickering, Executive Committee. 

J. H. Eastman reported the preparation of a 
second edition of the class history, covering the 
entire period of twenty years since graduation. He 
was directed to send copies to all the graduate and 
non-graduate members of the class, and the price 
was fixed at two dollars and a half. 

It was announced that the class-scholarship had 
now reached the amount decided upon, $1,500, and 
its income would be available the coming year. 
Chickering proved a most skillful regulator of the 
"flow of soul." Dr. Howes with his "desultory 
remarks " and original song capped the climax. 
The re-union was most delightful in every way. 
The absent ones were all remembered, and letters 
from several brought their greetings and regrets. It 
was resolved to make special effort to have a larger 
number present at the next re-union. 






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